Sentences with word «stevedore»

He spoke of freed slaves migrating north and finding work in factories and as stevedores.

«Competition has significantly increased in recent years with the introduction of a third stevedore in Sydney and Brisbane, and now we can add Melbourne to that list.

It was a smoky dive, full of what looked like stevedores sitting at long tables before a gaunt guitarist perched on a stool.

Stevedores at the port of Aden, 120 miles south of Rada, unloaded spices, Chinese porcelain, gold, precious stones, slaves, and textiles.

«Tioga Marine Terminal will have a great future because of these major capital improvements,» said Robert Palaima, President of Delaware River Stevedores (DRS), which operates the Tioga Marine Terminal.

The ACCC is proposing to allow DP World Australia Ltd and Patrick Stevedores to give preferential treatment of truck carriers engaging in dual runs at the Port of Fremantle.

A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part - Cherokee - Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie - studio handyman in the early 1910s.

In fact, construction labor ranked 244th out of 250 professions in the most recent edition of the Jobs Rated Almanac, trailing stevedores and roofers, but beating out fishermen and lumberjacks.

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well - muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en route to Paris, where he was to work for the USIS, Julia had an awakening that changed her life.

And while the Union is preparing for elections on Saturday, two stevedores claim that their grievance hearings with the unio...

The quays milled with stevedores, dockers, walkers, passengers and all kinds of goods.

This morning, local stevedores began offloading the 15 blades at the Providence port facility.

For more than 30 years, she has handled marine and energy litigation, including collision cases, hurricane losses, onshore and offshore oil and gas claims, hydraulic fracturing cases, marine and energy products liability litigation, the defense of personal injury and death actions, contract and lien claims, dock and stevedore liabilities and subrogation litigation.

Represents marine insurers, shipping lines, stevedore providers and terminals in a variety of casualty, personal injury and coverage matters.

He claimed the locations were drawn from memories of his time spent in numerous circuses as a youth, as a soldier serving with the U.S. Army during World War I in Europe, as a vagabond rail rider, and as a stowaway and stevedore in Asia and Australia.

The public should be made to see that oil was not a little group of robber barons, but a multitude of people — surveyors and drillers and engineers and stevedores and scientists and plain ordinary workers.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

The folks he meets seem to represent a cross section of occupations — a plumber, a dentist, a stevedore, an artist, a corporation lawyer.

Once reaching the facility, the company's stevedores, who palletize the cargo, unload Seafreeze's ships.

Red Hook Terminals, a terminal, operator, stevedore and Cross Harbor Barge Operator, joined federal, state and local elected officials, as well as...

In New York City, he finds work as a stevedore on the docks by dropping Charles Malik's (Jack Warden) name to the boss.

With vaudeville's decline in the later 1920s, he tried attending college but dropped out of Harvard after just three months, preferring to make a living as a stevedore on the New York docks, and he also later served as a seaman on a tanker.

Above the warehouse roofs, he can see the swaying tops of main - and mizzenmasts, hear the shouts of the stevedores and the thump of mallets from the cooperage nearby.

He worked for two years as a stevedore on a Swedish ship ferrying coal and iron ore to Europe and America.

The Christian Workers Union represents fourteen entities, one of which is the stevedores.

For students of media history, this was a watershed year: Kennedy wore makeup and fuddled his answers; Nixon wore no makeup and won the debate, but he lost the election because he sweated like a stevedore on a hot day in July.

This includes but is not limited to ship loaders, repairmen, longshoremen / women, stevedores, checkers, port workers and ship builders.

As was noted in the Stevedores case -LRB-[1955] SCR 529), paragraph 2 (i) is «merely an omnibus paragraph»; it does not create any new jurisdictional powers.

The practice developed as a result of our renowned expertise in shipping and the injuries suffered by crew, passengers and stevedores.