Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this derelict aboard the derelict, and what was he doing there? Why had the crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to the radio shack, and blown a hole in the hull, just above the water line, with dynamite? Who had hidden whose corpse in the coal bunker? Why had the Mary Deare made a mysterious unscheduled stopover at Rangoon? Why did the last man aboard insist on steering her straight for the Channel rocks...
...shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided to eliminate one of the two switching locomotives at Antigo because there was not enough work to keep them busy. But the road may not remove the idled crew without union permission, and permission had not been given...
...problem cannot be solved overnight by any catchall solution. But the first step must be made soon if the U.S. railroads do not want to continue to lose business to their competitors. The four idle men in the shack at Antigo make a shocking example of what can happen when an industry loses its ability to change with the times...
...bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
...impressed by the fact that Johansson was undefeated in his 21 fights, last year had demolished No. 1 Contender Eddie Machen with the very same right. European heavyweights, however upright their intentions, traditionally have been horizontally inclined against American champions. And Patterson, 24, camping in a grubby New Jersey shack, grimly punishing himself in training with everything but a hair shirt, was determined to prove to detractors that he deserved the title...