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...Queen's owners, American-International Airways, Inc., had provided few comforts for her nonscheduled flight to Baltimore. She carried 62 passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...
Giant Swing. That was only the beginning of the Sky Queen's ordeal. The sight of her, tumbling and pitching "like a giant swing at Coney Island," made Captain Paul Cronk, commander of the Bibb, feel "horrified" and "sick." He had been awakened by a steward only a little before, had "found myself frozen stiff in the middle of my quarters" by the news that the plane carried 69 people...
...Norwegian Airlines Kvitbjoern (White Bear), a Sandringham flying boat, was one of the fanciest airliners aloft. An elevator carried its steward between the kitchen on the upper deck and the dining room and snack bar on the lower...
About an hour before sailing time, Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., buttonholed a Queen Elizabeth steward. Hadn't his case of butter come aboard yet? His Excellency dashed back onto the dock, scurried three blocks to a grocery, came back lugging ten pounds of butter and eight of bacon-for friends at home, he explained...
...unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look, you lazy bums...