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...perched on the girders of a half-completed traffic ramp on Manhattan's lower East Side one afternoon last week, Louis Sarno, a sinewy construction foreman, saw a big-city tragedy in the making. Directly across traffic-jammed South Street an apartment window stood open. As Sarno watched, a two-year-old boy climbed on the sill, teetered in fright four floors above the sidewalk. Sarno yelled at two gardeners working across the street. They did not hear him. The 41-year-old foreman wasted no more time...
...worked with A.F.L, and both worked alongside non-unionists. Flint's old (78) Charles Stewart Mott, a multimillionaire director of (and once the largest single stockholder in) General Motors, came wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. He was furious when a foreman refused to let him climb a ladder to nail roofing. "They think I'm too old," he stormed. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
David Looby sat on the veranda of his brown, one-story frame house on a humid Chicago night last week, and listened bitterly to a murmur of voices on the porch of Neighbor Mark Deady across the street. David Looby, 53, is an ordinary citizen, a stocky municipal electrical foreman who earns $650 a month and goes regularly to Sunday Mass at St. Margaret of Scotland Roman Catholic Church. But he nursed an extraordinary hatred for a clerk named Ralph Adams who had been courting 35-year-old Mary Deady for five years. Reason: Ralph Adams was in the habit...
...stationmaster but a freight foreman, Louis retired in 1949 at the age of 65, full of pride in his five sons, all of whom went to college, and two married daughters; proud, too, to be a city councilman, and proud of the new world that had brought him so many good things...