Word: handwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handful of students and their leader who waved signs in Senator Taft's face last Saturday were creating little disturbance--a ripple of laughter, but no more. Yet on these grounds the police refused them permission to display their handwork, even after Taft had left and the ceremony was over...
...time on the woodpile, vibes and marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown...
Order was restored only when President Carlos Prio Socarrás promised that local markets would be safe for handwork. Hereafter, he decreed, machine-made cigars would be for export only. The big companies, which had already installed 29 machines (displacing 768 workers) and ordered 12 more, refused to accept Prio's decision as final. "Now that we have invested our money," wailed one big producer, "we would be forced to close if this is definitive. Our export market is not large enough to take our full machine output. We need 20% of the home market besides." The battle...