Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
Rewards & Prerogatives. Only time can tell whether the rewards and prerogatives of her new life will compensate for its restrictions and demands. But there will be many prerogatives. If she wishes to travel, airlines, railroads or steamship lines will produce space for her at the ring of a telephone, and hold up schedules with harried smiles if she is late. The President's DC-6 Independence will be hers to command. Hair stylists and dress designers will scramble to serve her, even though Mamie sticks steadily to her bangs, and, despite owning a few Paris gowns, is a great...
...nearly half a million dollars in petty-cash "gratuities" in the last five years. Committee Counsel Theodore Kiendl prodded Nolan into an admission: Jarka paid off not only labor racketeers but agents and executives of shipping companies to get their unloading business. E.g., a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Lines got $2,500 a year for three years, the local manager of the Holland-America Line got $15,000 a year for two years...
...pits, while mechanics hastily switched a propeller to Slo-mo IV from her sister boat, one grease-monkey advised handsome Slo-mo IV Driver Stanley (Dollar Steamship Line) Dollar: "Remember, the lead is everything." Dollar roared out to challenge Miss Pepsi for the front spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water...
...crossing was actuality, and a new era of steamship travel had begun...