Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered Commodore Harry Manning: "They can tie this ship up until hell freezes over, as far as I am concerned. The time has come to find out who runs the ship, the delegate...
...Florida airfields heard a terse, frightening radio report from a Miami-bound Eastern Airlines Constellation with 69 people aboard. One of its engines had exploded, a piece of flying metal had killed a steward, and preparations were being made to ditch it, if necessary, 130 miles out at sea. Coast Guard planes began a frantic search. After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop...
...That doesn't belong there," said the waitress. "Perhaps you'd better show it to Mr. Moran, the assistant steward...
...assure you it was unintentional," said Mr. Moran. "Perhaps you'd better show it to Mr. McNeil, the steward...
...take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum, you've 'ad it." The men laughed...