Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High on the skeleton tower of one of the new Houses, Mr. McCarthy has been catching rivets from Jim Maloney for many days. Fairly soon the new Buick will be paid for and the Missus can get a new spring coat. The foreman down below is enjoying a comfortable pipe between his rounds of inspection. Lots of work and more coming. Great stuff, these House Plans. If the company continues to make money this way there's no telling what new jobs might open...
Dolefully said the Record: "We suggest that the News [undergraduate daily] interview the foreman in charge of Unit A to get some enlightening and authentic information on the House Plan. . . . The purpose of the House Plan being to make people chummy, we suggest that the new quadrangles be furnished with everything in pairs: wash basins facing each other, adjoining showers, twin beds, and the like. Under the new regime, the roommates best fitted for a Yale House will be a pair of Siamese Twins...
...Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant and sent up 25,000 bbls. of stored gasoline in flames...
...apparently the one man, who could and did perform the year's largest politico-economic job for the world's leading nations. Economics underlies war. War leaves economic tangles which must be straightened out before society can proceed in peace. The man who spent four months as foreman of the high financial wrecking crew which was the Second Reparations Conference, was Owen D. Young of Van Hornesville...
...tale begins in London, at a Thamesside dockyard where a cruiser is being launched. It is May, 1900; the Boer War is on. The first character in the book is Bolt, a loud dockyard foreman, a Kiplingesque sort of character, a type of England in her glory. At the end he is a doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar...