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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Plymouth and plunged into a night of gale, only one had ever been to sea before. Soon almost all were seasick. Skipper Seligman felt a gloomy awe at his own temerity. He and the first mate, Lars, had to shout in melodramatic alarm to rouse hands to shorten sail. After the two-day gale had blown out, "faces that we had almost forgotten appeared blinking...
...rough-&-tumble Calle Desamparados about who called the play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...
...their rooms or apartments since the end of the war may have to use pay booths for another ten weeks, although B. A. Dwyer, business manager of the Cambridge Branch of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company announced Friday that his office is doing "everything possible" to shorten the wait of applicants...
Instructors affected by the Congressional ruling will have the option, according to the Union, of reducing their teaching load "to the point where their allowance from the Veterans Administration will not be reduced." Extra time made available for their own studies, the Union statement added, "should shorten the period during which they will be subject to such income restrictions...
...make safe the places where the men work. Most of the miners live on company property in little, dirty towns and have contact with the outside world only through their union; they have no essential security in job or home. Under present conditions, even the best mines will shorten a man's life by almost two decades...