Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most everyone knows one fact about tugboats: a good tugboat man can hurl a torrid phrase across the water hard enough to make it bounce. But few know another important fact: that the Dutch had a virtual monopoly before the war on deep-sea towing...
Hardboiled Harry Lundeberg' in the West, and in the East, medium-boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...
...Yorkers had suffered since V-J day from elevator tieups, two tugboat strikes that periled fuel and power supplies (see above), a war of nerves over a subway standstill, and now this. They had learned two things:1) how easily one union can put the brakes on the Big Town; 2) there was nothing they could do about...
...story, based on Roger Vercel's Goncourt Prize novel, Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...
...York City, which last month weathered a ten-day tie-up by striking tugboat operators, now faced the threat of a far more serious strike: on all city-owned subway, elevated, streetcar and bus lines...