Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and foremost a source of employment, a means of livelihood. [The sailor] hated the sea as a savage enemy." Says Author Villiers tartly: "It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters on the famed Cutty Sark got little but pea soup and "boiled salt horse" during a voyage of many months, and biscuits so hard that they...
When Martin Patrick Durkin resigned last week as Secretary of Labor, an old union colleague remarked: "Like any old steam fitter, he knew when the pressure got too high." The pressure had been building up for a long time in several boilers-including Martin Durkin...
...British freighter Nigelock, a converted wartime corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
...seminarians' summer jobs reflected a trend that is belatedly gathering steam in U.S. Protestantism. Roman Catholic leaders have long made the working man a special concern; Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was well known for his concern for the workers' cause. Except in mission work, most of the Protestant denominations have concentrated on the tending of middle-class flocks...
...Witnesses coming from abroad), there were billets aplenty from Times Square to the Grand Concourse. Loaves and fishes for this multitude were processed on a suitable scale: the entire second floor of a garage was turned into one 20,000-square-foot kitchen equipped with 41 giant steam cookers. Maintenance men, butchers, guides, electricians, steamfitters, carpenters, cooks, sign-painters and musicians to the number of 20,000 were enrolled to "work for the Lord." Estimated market value of their contributed services: more than...