Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
...worth $300 million, plus $70 million in steel wages and an estimated $21 million in industry profits. The drain is affecting satellite industries. Around the country, of the 35,000 workers laid off in industries depending on steel, 9,000 were truckers, more than 10,000 railroadmen, several thousand seamen (on the Great Lakes. 300 broad-beamed ore carriers dropped anchor). This week at least another 30,000 nonsteel workers will be idled; next week the number will grow by far more than that. If the strike lasts 30 days, Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. will have to stop...
Aware that North German Lloyd was synonymous with service, Bertram and Kulenkampff set up a hotel and restaurant in Bremen to hold together stewards and cooks, placed seamen on other ships until jobs were ready for them. With $22 million in government loans and fast tax write-offs, they quickly built up a fleet of new freighters, now have 40 in service...
...that had been colorful and lively went grey and quiet. The Race Course became a sedate People's Park; the famed Shanghai Club, where British merchants had dozed over month-old copies of the London Times, a seamen's club; Blood Alley, where sailors used to break each other's heads in chauvinistic brawls, resounded only to the click of chopsticks in cooperative noodle shops. Bars and dance halls and opium dens closed down; prostitutes and beggars vanished from the newly swept streets...
...such a success that they moved it to another bar, were soon arguing with some Italian waiters that if Guido and other seamen jumped into the lifeboats first, they were not cowards, because it was their duty to protect those expensive little boats with the motors in them. Later, their lines more polished. Pat and pals turned Guido into a golf pro. introduced him to Singer Dick Haymes, who suggested that he had once played Guide's home course in Salerno. (There is no golf course in Salerno though Pat plays high-grade three-handicap golf.) At a party...