Word: handymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends...
...last October two Chinese handymen refused to stoke the furnace in the comfortable house of Chargé d'Affaires Berend Jan Slingenberg, unless they got higher wages or another man to help them. Slingenberg told them to fire up the furnace or get fired themselves. When they burst into his office to protest as he was busy with a caller, he angrily ordered them out of the office, and gave one a push. For two weeks nothing happened. Then, one by one, 42 Chinese servants and staffmen began to leave...
...found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump new life into the old Mechanics, but to the staff's handymen the transaction was a sad event. Mourned one of them: "When I think of the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into every issue...
...Handymen to the Hungry. Conference members work hard for their pay, are topnotch labor-relations experts and, for the most part, community pillars. Conference Chairman Clarence Beck of Salt Lake City, no kin to deposed Teamster Boss Dave Beck of Seattle, is a Mayflower descendant and Son of the American Revolution. But an important few serve as Teamster policymakers and handy men to power-hungry bosses. Examples...
...Priestly Handymen...