Word: nightworker
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...apartment last week, Inventor Baschet proudly displayed the result of his nightwork: a monstrous collection of iron plates, steely spirals, glass rods in spiky rows, pneumatic cushions of red-and-white plastic, wires, bolts and screws, hammers, dampers. One instrument looked like a pair of inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future...
...three days of this, the harried government agreed to consider the jailers' demands for better uniforms, bonuses for nightwork, and a raise to 35,000 francs ($100) per month. Leaders of five unions called off the strike. Everybody felt relieved at the splendid way the prisoners had behaved throughout: nobody tried to escape...
Little progress was made in trying to settle the strike, called by maintenance and electrical workers. The 700 strikers, who earn $34.37 a week for nightwork and $29.33 for daywork, rejected a $2 wage increase from the publishers. Last week one paper settled the strike in its own shop: the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 83,376). Meanwhile, the other newspapers were losing an estimated $5.7 million a week...
...Senate, which likes to go home to dinner, also got stuck with some nightwork. Wisconsin's rash-talking Joseph R. McCarthy rose and swung the tails of not one, but 81 Communists and party-liners (or so he said) in a wild attempt to decapitate both Harry Truman and Dean Acheson in one horrendous swing...
...again as if nothing had happened. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who did a swell job restoring morale at Federal Shipbuilding, was in charge. His first step was to tell the workers that as long as the Navy was there they might not get even the 3?-an-hour nightwork bonus WLB had approved. The workers took this in good part. Michael Patrakian, the young strike leader, said: "We are all damn glad it happened. We are all sailors now. We wanted the Navy to take over [instead of an unfair management]. We know Uncle Sam will treat us right...