Word: stewarding
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Last week about two dozen workers for Germany sailed from Manhattan aboard the liner St. Louis. A steward surveyed the group, explained to newsmen: "Rückwanderer, or going-back people." One was reticent, middle-aged Kurt Stache of Milwaukee, who declined to discuss Eugene Buerk. "He is not coming back-he cannot talk," explained a companion. An ornamental iron worker from Chicago paid all his own fare so that he would be free to return if Nazi Germany is not so rosy as letter-writing relatives paint...
...eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their seat cushions, finally lost his hold and was drowned...
...passengers and a steward were lost during the ten hours that the survivors, five of them women, clung precariously to seat-pack life preservers. Toward midnight, the Standard Oil tanker Esso Baytown, one of many craft searching by sea and air, picked them up, took them to New York...
While Copilot Clyde Russell sprayed a fire extinguisher on the burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
...Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able to throw a bowline") ; second month deck men, stewards and engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material at the end of their 90 days of general...