Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...three years. The railroads have reluctantly offered to hike wages by an average of 37%, following the recommendation of a presidential emergency board. In return, the lines want an increase in productivity and an end to such wasteful featherbedding practices as changing train crews every 100 miles and paying crewmen extra money for operating a walkie-talkie. Many of these work rules compel the ailing lines to carry thousands of unneeded workers at an annual cost of hundreds of millions of dollars...
...epidemic of strikes since just after World War II, and in the form of hardhat riots in New York City, St. Louis and elsewhere. This year postal employees have gone on strike for the first time in history, city workers have stomped off the job in Cincinnati, and tugboat crewmen and gravediggers have struck in New York. Municipal employees in San Francisco and Atlanta, rubber workers in Akron, and teamsters across the country?all have walked out. In this year's first nine months, the U.S. lost 41.5 million man-days through strikes, up 32% from the equivalent period last...
...first mark on the triangular 24.3-mile course, Gretel II attempted to set her spinnaker, but it knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While the Aussies circled to rescue their comrade, Intrepid glided...
Precisely what happened to the AN-22, which carried about 25 crewmen and passengers, may never be known. U.S. rescue craft took the lead in searching the icy waters near the plane's last recorded radio signal. They located a life raft and some debris but later concluded that neither came from the missing plane. The Soviets, obviously distressed at the loss of an expensive piece of strategic equipment, rushed eight Tu-95 reconnaissance bombers into the area to join the search. The AN-22, which made its debut in experimental form in 1965, was developed to haul heavy...
...first results stunned Israel. In the space of six days three Israeli Phantom jets were shot down, and all but one of the six pilots and crewmen involved were captured by the Egyptians. To Israeli officials, it seemed plain the Soviet Union had moved into a crucial phase in its Arab support...