Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship...
...Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode...
...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...
Salve. To soothe labor's slow burn, the mobilization high command quickly made a salving gesture. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston appointed George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, to be a special assistant, specializing in price and wage issues. It was a salve-but not enough to quiet union leaders' grumbles...
Furthermore, the bill in its present condition is much too inclusive. Although aimed at the M.T.A., the bill does not specify the M.T.A. Thus the student commuter could ride any airplane, steamship, railroad, or bus in Massachusetts at half fare. A student who lived in a distant Massachusetts community could ride home at half price...