Word: menders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week blunter talk about Communists came out of Scandinavia than any yet heard from a government next door to Russia. The talker was Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, long and lank like the King whose Prime Minister he is. Gerhardsen had left school at 16 to be a road mender. Then he became a trade union organizer. When the Germans landed in Norway and ousted him as mayor of Oslo, he went back to mending roads, clad in overalls. At night, after his road work, he organized the labor union section of the Norwegian underground. Later he spent several years...
Under his postwar Labor Party premiership, Norway has made Western Europe's greatest gains over prewar industrial production levels. But Road-Mender Gerhardsen saw some nasty obstacles in Norway's way to recovery. Moscow-led Communists, as well as patriots like himself, had worked up to postwar power through the resistance movement. Their influence was far greater than their eleven members in the 150-member Storting indicated...
...white-haired road mender from Birmingham, Alfred Stannard, had been lucky too. His tiny cottage is crammed with 20 paintings that he has been collecting for 34 years. In a junk shop one day last summer, Stannard had noticed an unimpressive little oil, a landscape set in a fine Gothic frame. He took it home, started scraping away the landscape with his penknife, and came face to face with Henry VIII (see cut). He had rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait...