Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike began after I.L.A. officials in New York and other Northeastern ports had signed a truce agreement with the New York Shipping Association to extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry...
Aboard the Dutch freighter Utrecht, carrying sugar, general cargo and eleven passengers from Singapore to New York, perhaps no man was more envied by his fellow crewmen than Willem Marie Louis Van Rie, the ship's radio officer. He was a newcomer to the 62-man crew, son of the headmaster of a Roman Catholic school in Holland, married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty...
Lynn was good company at sea. She cheerfully pressed the uniforms for some of the ship's officers, and Van Rie's coat was later found in her cabin. Some passengers thought that Juanita Spector had seemed annoyed at Lynn's behavior, heard rumors that Juanita no longer welcomed her in the Spector household...
Armed with shotguns and carrying provisions, two men stole aboard the 400-ft. hulk of the Liberian tanker African Queen as she lay stranded and shoal-torn ten miles off Ocean City, Md. It was March, and the sea pounded against the rusting hull of the ship, which had run aground three months before. With 200 ft. of her bow ripped away, the 13,800-ton African Queen had been officially abandoned by her owners; now watermen from Ocean City poked about the hulk, prying at loose fittings, taking everything movable that seemed salable. The two newcomers watched patiently until...
...m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads, cut in 120 places, virtually ceased to run. With more than...