Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most extraordinary thing about Pacific Huts is the way its men work. Recruited from nearby Venetian-blind, box and ladder factories, they stick to their jobs like leeches, work so fast they seem to be dogtrotting. Yet their pay (which averages $1 an hour) is no match for Seattle's shipyards. Moreover, Pacific Huts' absentee rate is a minuscule 1.5%, compared to about 8% at Boeing Aircraft's vast plant half a mile down the road, and about 4% for the region...
...Harvard five reached its all-season nadir. In the first ten minutes of the period, while Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
Unturned Stone. In Texas' legislature a bill was introduced prohibiting the blind from driving automobiles...
...Army. The new work was stormy and large in scale. It did not seem likely to disturb either of the two kinds of Harris listeners: 1) devotees, who see in Harris' rugged themes a reflection of the energy and spaciousness of U.S. life; 2) skeptics like blind Pianist Alex Templeton, who thought Harris' Third Symphony sounded "like a lot of people moving furniture around...
...Caribou, Me., the draft board reclassified John W. Keene I-A before it learned that he was: 1) 90, 2) blind...