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...champagne, a purseful of cigarettes and a corsage. When he takes her home, she passes out in the foyer. He lugs his hefty pickup up and down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety-hoppety down the avenue at dawn, wondering if girls are worth the effort...
...like working in a factory. Everybody was standing in line with projects for us to do, like a line of railroad cars waiting to unload. I don't say we were doing inferior work; I just know I wasn't doing my best...
...money they demand and pull down, Brazilian dockers get precious little work done. Along the Brazilian coast, a ship often needs several weeks to dock, unload, load and steam away again. At Santos recently, one ship was 60 days loading 16,000 tons of corn. By the time the ship finally weighed anchor, kernels of corn that had trickled into deck crevices had sprouted into vigorous plants. As port costs spiral, more and more foreign ships steam past Brazil's congested harbors, and dockworkers are now beginning to complain about lack of work. Their inevitable reaction: strikes for more...
...railroads charge that the work rules add up to "featherbedding," impose extra costs of $600 million a year. The companies want to revise the rules, gradually unload 65,000 workers, mainly firemen, and switch to a more realistic wage basis. The five operating unions say they will strike the moment the railroads put their proposed new rules into effect...
Eastern railroads answer that their percentages are higher because three times as many cars terminate in their areas as move out. Car-short lines charge that the Eastern roads like to pirate the new, bigger, smoother-riding cars now going into service because they are easier to handle and unload. "Any new car that you build that leaves this area," complains Illinois' Wilson, "you don't see again for a long time." To discourage boxcar piracy, the Association of American Railroads will raise the rate for daily rentals, but it has little power to police its own members...