Word: men
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers was notably narrow. Normally employed on the San Francisco water front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges' water front...
...great shakes as a chemist was simple, earnest Fritz Kuhn. But he had a hero. One man he honored above all men: Mein Fuhrer...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
...after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when an explosion that felt on shore like an earthquake blasted her apart, killed 29 men. Another victim was the 11,063-ton refrigerator ship Sussex, damaged in the English Channel. Off one east-coast port, the British 8,886-ton freighter Mangalore was lying at anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal...
Probability is that German production is nowhere near its potential peak right now. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of planes flown in Poland had to be overhauled, taking men off production. And lessons in Poland and the West are doubtless being incorporated in new designs, for which production will wait. Here Designer Willy Messerschmitt comes in, if he hasn't gone...