Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times had changed in the N.M.U. President Joe Curran, who has given many a Communist "commissar" the heave ho in recent months, declared flatly: "No one is authorized by this union to say a vessel will not sail." He added sternly: "We will settle this beef in the usual manner -through the grievance machinery." The crew backed him up. At a meeting on board the ship they voted overwhelmingly to disown Avellar's ultimatum...
Folks down here don't consider her-the biggest vessel on the river and bigger than many ocean-going cargo steamers-a "tugboat." She is a "towboat." An old lady of such poise, size and age should not be tagged with "tugboat...
Another of the stories is a neat though conventional sketch of a naval captain's obstinate and ultimately successful struggle to bring a torpedoed vessel back to port. The third is a first-rate portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written...
Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
...wheat saved in University dining halls today in the AVC sponsored plan will be shipped to Scotland aboard a Christmas relief vessel. Financial contributions to the shipment may be addressed to the S. S. Yankee Friendship, Boston Chamber of Commerce...