Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow papers played up, London papers played down last week the fact that in Greek waters the British battleship Queen Elizabeth recently hoisted the red flag with Hammer & Sickle while her British band blared the Internationale...
...does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken him but should sit down and listen sympathetically to his snoring. The only...
Died. William C. Hammer, 65, since 1921 Democratic Representative in Congress from the 7th District of North Carolina, previously (1914-20) U. S. attorney in the western district of North Carolina, owner & editor of the Asheboro Courier; second Representative from North Carolina to die last week (see below); after a heart attack, in Asheboro...
Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...
Into the great entrance hall of the White House last week tramped overalled workmen who began to bang and hammer on the left wall. Coming out of his cubby-hole office off the hall, Irwin...