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Word: seamen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Tom Bolles and his shipload of able seamen will be out to set a record for successive victories over the Blue when the Harvard Varsity shell matches strokes with Yale tomorrow on the Thames River in New London, in the 88th meeting between the two colleges...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...Begin monthly benefit payments next January 1 instead of in 1942, extend them to about 1,100,000 seamen, bank employes, people already over 65 and now employed who are not among the 42,500,000 presently eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tiddly Week | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut. J. C. Nichols and six seamen climbed into the bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Strike | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...many pickets ganged up on Everett docks that local police called help from Boston, charged the union line, dodged rocks, pitched tear gas bombs, jailed 36 strikers. The union put gas masks on its pickets, threatened to bring in enough seamen to trounce the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Strike | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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