Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skilled workers and foremen...
Seventy-five thousand unorganized cattle bellowed an anguished protest. A few coatless clerks of the stock yards and commission houses, a few foremen and superintendents in shirt sleeves-in all, perhaps, 200 men-went down into the pens to water 75,000 thirsty cattle. The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking. So all day the foremen and white collar workers labored alone. The thirsty beasts balked at being driven from pen to pen, at being sorted out by inexperienced hands. All day long the air above...
...vast, Bunyanesque scale of operations. Out in the field he had 25 silver-painted combines and 50 tractors, working day & night. Caravans of trucks lumbered to market with his wheat. Five messengers on motorcycles wove through the dust of three big Texas counties bearing messages for his field foremen, his mechanics, his troublespotters. When harvest was over that year and the 22,000 acres of Hickman Price's land lay in stubble, he had raised a half-million bushels of wheat and harvested most...
...team B scrimmage against the second Junior Varsity team resulted in two touchdowns for the foremen, Whitney and Locke. Whitney's team looked as if it were pulling together better and hitting harder than the A team...
...supreme council or Soviet to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether or not another group will be sent over next year depends entirely upon how successful these men are. In the past Russia has sent for American engineers to come over to act as foremen, and although the Americans mix with the Russians, they do not live under the same conditions. Russian workmen supervised by Russians will now be the aim of the government, and as soon as the 28 men now here return, they will immediately be given engineering jobs in Russian factories and mines...