Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernstein took part in the wild battle in which 30 Jews and 11 British seamen were injured as the enraged refugees threw the initial boarding party over the side. A second wave overpowered the passengers and crew with fire hoses, clubs, and tear...
...tried running a merchant seamen's canteen. She gave that up and went to Rome. There she worked as a reporter for Hearst's International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
Many of the migrants are young ex-G.I.s and merchant seamen, who got a taste of U.S. living during the war and turned their wartime savings into plane tickets for their families. But thousands are middle-aged and elderly Puerto Ricans, who sold all their possessions to raise the plane fare. Said one Puerto Rican, a university graduate who left a shoeshining job in San Juan: "If they could swim, the chickens would leave...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...