Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glove the next year when I left my old Rico Petrocelli one in the locker the last day of school and some janitor just dumped...
...their counterparts at Ford and GM. When Chrysler teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1979 and 1980, unions made concessions worth approximately $1 billion. But last year the company earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown...
...were native born, they were soon replaced by a bazaar of movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer...
...southern city of Punta Arenas, hurried back to the capital and announced emergency aid for those most severely affected by the quake. But for many Chileans, who are still suffering from the effects of a severe economic slump two years ago, the tragedy was overwhelming. Asked Manuel Rubilar, a janitor who earns $25 a month...
Cabot House officials discovered the zoo the next morning when a janitor reported it to House superintendent Gene Ketelhohn...