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- Marcus Meyer: 1942, there were around 400-some boats
on the Great Lakes.
As of today, we're down to about 50 to 60.
Sometimes I would leave in March,
and I wouldn't get home until maybe the following January.
Nine, ten months, and we worked seven days a week.
No time off.
My shift, I would go to work at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
and work till 8 o'clock that evening.
Then I would get up at 3 o'clock in the morning
and go on at 4 o'clock and work to 8:00 in the morning.
That was my eight hour day.
Today I still wake up at 3 o'clock
and I haven't been able to break it after 33 years.
I-- my wife kind of gets teed off at me a little bit
on that deal.
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