Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
...reduction of expenditure the president elect will be in no fair position to redeem his campaign pledges to the country. This bill proposes a centralization of action and of responsibility, a step eminently valid, and it is certainly a tragic irony which decrees that Mr. McNary, its most avowed foreman in the Senate, should have met his baptism of fame beneath the aegis of the Farm Relief Bill of painful memory...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...Jobs (Amkino) differs from the run of Russian pictures in the light touch with which its director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing...
...door of the Bullion Room its foreman scrutinized the order, then beckoned to his helpers, strapping hairy-chested gnomes in leather aprons who had rolled up their sleeves for action. Striding into the spacious vault they advanced upon a mass of gold roughly eight times as great as the order called for. The bars, neither bright nor corroded, lay in faintly gleaming piles on low wooden trucks with small, rubber-tired wheels. To each truck slated for moving was attached one of the white tags, reading "Federal Reserve Bank...