Word: forklift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year she was elected vice president of the new Coalition of Labor Union Women. She has persuaded the industry to promote women to more demanding, previously "male" jobs and convinced many skeptical women that they could perform them. Now, notes Wyatt, "there are women beefluggers, journeymen butchers, hamboners and forklift operators, and almost all of them say that their new jobs are easier than what they had been doing and pay a lot more...
...easier and more economical method would be to require workers to wear earplugs or muffs. Labor retorts that "personal protection," as it is called, can be dangerous. Says the AFL-CIO's Sheldon W. Samuels: "There is a documented case of a man killed by a forklift because with his ear muffs on he did not hear the warning bell." Samuels also argues that plugs "dehumanize a worker half his waking day. If industry thinks they are going to make our people animals, they're nuts...
...much the troubleshooters may eventually find range from $50 million to $100 million or more. It is a cornucopia of miscellany-"everything from vaginal foam to cement mixers," says one AID official. Among the items found so far: tin plate, steel sheet, chemicals, dies, pumps, cotton, newsprint, forklift trucks, photocopying machines. Says Frink in Hong Kong: "We have part of a rice mill. It may be an entire rice mill-I won't know until I get into the boxes. The same thing with an edible oil mill. There is a big shipment of ladles. Our hunch is that...
PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...
...Creme" on top and "Bronze Starflake" below (and a sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY NUDE!). Near by a crowd is gathering in front of the "Archie Bunker Hard Hat Hauler." The Hauler features a lunch-bucket gas tank, a chromed hard-hat roof, a forklift front bumper and a 500-h.p. Chrysler hemi-head engine with Triple GMC 671 blowers...