Word: foremans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago, finished school at St. Aloysius Academy, and got his first feel of metals working in the toolshop of Chicago's Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. (marine motors). He first got the feel of money when he returned to Texas, and later went to Mexico as a railroad shop foreman...
...Products' output-earmarked for Marines in Korea-was up to specifications. But 15.000 of the company's bandages were made on defective machines, and were so cut that they would fall apart under the slightest strain. Navy inspectors were shown only good bandages. An indignant Guild Products foreman tipped off the FBI; if he had not done so, the faulty bandages would not have been discovered until they reached the Korean front...
...Reuther went to work as an apprentice tool & diemaker in Wheeling, W. Va., his home town. Fired by the Wheeling Steel Corp. when he tried to organize a protest against Sunday work, he went to Detroit, where he rose to the skilled and highly paid job of foreman in a Ford tool & die room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia...
...there are usually more men than jobs, the boss's power is absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies themselves. But he is actually the free & unhampered agent of the local I.L.A. czar...
...according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland, official organ of the German Communist Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts from Furnace Four." Carpenter Giinter Blankenburg groused that...