Word: towboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skintight black jeans and green sport shirt, Singer Harry Belafonte riveted his audience in Las Vegas, where he opened last week, with Mark Twain - based on the cry of the man with the lead-line on a towboat. This song, and many another in Belafonte's repertory, represents a draft on a treasury in Washington, D.C. that to many a scholar and singer is more important than Fort Knox...
...largest inland barge systems in the U.S., operating on 3,300 miles of the Mississippi and its tributaries in eleven Midwestern and Southern states. Physical assets: 253 barges, 4 tugs, 20 towboats, 20 new barges and one new towboat to be delivered this year, and a profitable 18-mile railroad...
...lingo rang fair and true. He writes just as effectively in The Monongahela and even gives a fair amount of his secret away: "In order to have a river in your blood, unforgettably and forever . . . you have to work on her for wages." In 1944 he piloted a diesel towboat on the Monongahela for seven months...
...Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time, and he had to be persuaded not to take the first train back to the Midwest. Came spring and Pilot Bissell thought: "For me to be drawing wages for piloting a towboat under these conditions. why, that's just like paying a kid to watch the circus...
Like Author Bissell, Bill Joyce had some fancy schooling and a well-to-do father. When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...