Opportunities in Merchant ShipsHarper & brothers, 1919 - 97 էջ |
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... pacific liners and shore jobs like marine superintendent or supervising engineer . They are worked up to by years of hard , capable , resourceful life at sea and a balance of luck playing in a man's favor instead of against him . They ...
... pacific liners and shore jobs like marine superintendent or supervising engineer . They are worked up to by years of hard , capable , resourceful life at sea and a balance of luck playing in a man's favor instead of against him . They ...
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... distributed on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts , the Great Lakes , and the Gulf of Mexico , so that there will be room enough for as many boys as want that character of training . You have to give 20 OPPORTUNITIES IN MERCHANT SHIPS AT.
... distributed on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts , the Great Lakes , and the Gulf of Mexico , so that there will be room enough for as many boys as want that character of training . You have to give 20 OPPORTUNITIES IN MERCHANT SHIPS AT.
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... Pacific coast the San Francisco Commercial News will do you the same service . In the bad old days when " crimps " got a little from the ship and a little from the man for each member of the crew they provided , you needed to watch out ...
... Pacific coast the San Francisco Commercial News will do you the same service . In the bad old days when " crimps " got a little from the ship and a little from the man for each member of the crew they provided , you needed to watch out ...
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... Pacific ports and Asia , the ocean coastwise runs to the east and west coasts of South America , and the great fresh - water run of the Great Lakes from Duluth , at the head of Lake Superior , eight hundred miles to Buffalo , with wheat ...
... Pacific ports and Asia , the ocean coastwise runs to the east and west coasts of South America , and the great fresh - water run of the Great Lakes from Duluth , at the head of Lake Superior , eight hundred miles to Buffalo , with wheat ...
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... Pacific trades , where both the United States and Great Britain have too easily conceded a predominance . The African trades will not be so readily ours as they are Great Britain's , and we will have to fight somewhat as inter- lopers ...
... Pacific trades , where both the United States and Great Britain have too easily conceded a predominance . The African trades will not be so readily ours as they are Great Britain's , and we will have to fight somewhat as inter- lopers ...
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aboard ship ahead American ashore Asst astronomy Atlantic blue-ribbon Cadet captain cargo cent chance chief engineer civilian seaman civilian ships coal-passer coastwise crew deck develop engine-room fellow fireman freight Frisco Galveston gives go to sea Gulf Gulf of Mexico handy interesting Japan Joseph Conrad keep Lakes liners Liverpool lives Mackinac Island mate merchant marine MERCHANT SHIPS naval reserve Navigation navy nitrate oiler operated OPPORTUNITIES IN MERCHANT Orleans overtime Pacific Panama Canal passenger passenger-ships port Punta Arenas River sailing-ships sailor San Francisco Sea chanties sea pictures sea watches Seamen's Seamen's Institute sextant ship's officer Shipping Board shipping companies shipping-offices South America Standard Oil steam Steamship Company steward talk there's thing third mate tion trades and routes union United States merchant vessel voyage W. R. Grace Ward line York City young
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Էջ 33 - An' now the main eccentrics start their quarrel on the sheaves. Her time, her own appointed time, the rocking link-head bides, Till — hear that note? — the rod's return whings glimmerin' through the guides. They're all awa! True beat, full power, the clangin' chorus goes Clear to the tunnel where they sit, my purrin
Էջ 26 - They had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent...
Էջ 33 - Lord, send a man like Robbie Burns to sing the Song o' Steam! To match wi' Scotia's noblest speech yon orchestra sublime Whaurto - uplifted like the Just - the tail-rods mark the time. The crank-throws give the double-bass, the feed-pump sobs an
Էջ 32 - Romance ! Those first-class passengers they like it very well, Printed an' bound in little books ; but why don't poets tell ? I'm sick of all their quirks an' turns - the loves an' doves they dream Lord, send a man like Robbie Burns to sing the Song o
Էջ 26 - But in truth they had been men who knew toil, privation, violence, debauchery - but knew not fear, and had no desire of spite in their hearts. Men hard to manage, but easy to inspire; voiceless men - but men enough to scorn in their hearts the sentimental voices that bewailed the hardness of their fate.
Էջ 29 - Working hours on week days in port shall be from 7 am to 12 m. and from 1 pm to 5 pm 3.
Էջ 27 - ... voices that bewailed the hardness of their fate. It was a fate unique and their own ; the capacity to bear it appeared to them the privilege of the chosen: their generation lived inarticulate and indispensable, without knowing the sweetness of affections or the refuge of a home; and died free from the dark menace of a narrow grave. They were the everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Their...
Էջ 27 - But the others were strong and mute; they were effaced, bowed and enduring, like stone caryatides that hold up in the night the lighted halls of a resplendent and glorious edifice. They are gone now — and it does not matter. The sea and the earth are unfaithful to their children: a truth, a faith, a generation of men goes — and is forgotten, and it does not matter ! Except, perhaps, to the few of those who believed the truth, confessed the faith — or loved the men.
Էջ 30 - The crew shall have one (1) unbroken hour for dinner while lying in port or roadstead, and no work shall be performed during such hour. Dinner shall be from 12 m. to 1 pm, but may be varied not to exceed one hour either way. Breakfast...
Էջ 31 - ... 13. Members should use their judgment at all times, and if in doubt what should be charged as overtime should do the work required of them and then refer the case to the union for adjustment.