Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When newly naturalized Harry Bridges turned up in Manhattan, the stage setting was about complete. Other shipyard workers and seamen (also members of the C.I.O.) refused to work with "phony"-i.e., nonstriking stevedores...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...
Susie's most persistent fans are British seamen, who are seldom content with a standby like Danny Boy, but who bedevil her with requests for obscure English songs. Usually she knows them. The sailormen often ask for, and get, what Susie calls "The one about the girl who feeds her lover poisoned eels...
...Harvard group's program was, in a way, an answer to nervous yells which had come across the Atlantic from Britain. At a meeting of British seamen, acid-tongued Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted defiantly last week: ". . . We can still hold up our heads. We can run our ships better. . . . America is not a great maritime nation." Week before, Sir Percy E. Bates, head of the Cunard White Star line, complained that the U.S. was getting set for shipping while British ships were ferrying U.S. troops home...
...night was pitch black, patched with fog and laced with rain which rattled like beans on the seamen's battle helmets. From the second ship in column, the lead ship Iowa was invisible. Japanese snooper planes appeared only as "blips" on the radar screen, then vanished, having failed to detect the fleet. The enemy coast was invisible to all but the magic eye of the gun directors. In another group, following, were British battleships such as the King George V, with ten 14-inch guns...