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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (305025)10/6/2002 12:58:58 PM
From: Angler  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I go back over 60 yrs. in my observations of stevedoring home and abroad.

Many years ago in San Francisco when cargo came off in slings, it was not uncommon to have accidents in unloading when the nets were dropped and spilled and salvage resulted.
Scotch whisky was a favorite target. In wooden cases a bottle would burst and the liquid strained would spill out thru the seams to be caught by a tin cup which everyone carried. Free drinks on the house.

There was one salvage company close to the piers that was known to "order" salvage from the stevedores. They always found ready buyers at 60c on the dollar even if the stuff was a little dented.

Pilferage became so gross that finally the insurance companies prevailed and cargos were jammed into the invention of containers, and the Oakland container docks were born. San Francisco's many piers were isolated and without activity for 40 years thereafter.

This sort of thing happens at the beginning and the end of the line. Overseas during WW2 the wharfies in Auckland went out on strike while our ship was loading perishables to be shipped forward into combat areas. Their beef was lack of hot water in the showers and cramped lunch rooms as I recall. On board ship we didn't mind. We just had that much more time to enjoy the girls ashore.
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