Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...
When Vasile Foar, a onetime railroad shop worker, was 35, a strike occurred in Garrett. Ind. machine shops of Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Vasile Foar acted as foreman of a crew of strikebreakers. In return for his services the road promised him work for the rest of his life. That...
During the course of construction on a giant dam, a negro laborer, through causes over which he had obviously little control, plunged from the scaffolding, and whirled to his death on the rocks about a hundred feet below. Our friend from Tech ran to report the accident to the foreman, a Dixitie of the old school, who appeared vaguely ruffled by the news. He turned to his assistant and drawlel wearily, "Dama it all, Oscar, go ahead and get us another...
Newshawks discovered that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student...
...their radio tormenter by distributing about Trenton mimeographed sheets in which they snickered at Carter's "Bond Street elegance and Piccadilly flair," observed that he "flew through the air with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political patronage as remuneration...