Word: pails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fame grew, boatbuilders came from Scandinavia and Scotland to work for him. Nevins knew every employee by his first name. Even after he became a millionaire, he often brought his own lunch pail to work, ate outside with the loftsmen and mechanics. His friendship and personal ability invited them to do their best work; his high standards demanded it. Once he set down this principle: "The man who builds . . . yachts is a craftsman; outside of yacht building, there are few craft industries left. A good craftsman must have, first of all, a basic sense of integrity and pride...
...Hard Way. Rosen's old-pro versatility has not come easy. As a prewar bush-leaguer he seemed so hopeless in the field that a Class C manager took one scornful look and said, "Listen, kid, you'd better go home and get yourself a lunch pail. Forget about baseball. You either have it or you don't. You don't." Al ignored the advice...
...Barn 20, two sets of Vanderbilt horses had already returned from workouts. They were led up a neat row of peppermint-striped water pails. At each pail, a groom swabbed down a horse with a sponge of warm water, then covered him with a bright "cooler" (blanket). Then the "hot walkers" took over, for the lowly but necessary job of walking the work-hot horses for 30 minutes or an hour, until they have been gradually watered and cooled. For the Dancer, the day was just beginning...
...responsible for the new trend is salty, 7 2-year-old Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern of Chicago, longtime head of the hospital-standardization program of the American College of Surgeons. "When I came on the job in the '20s," says Dr. MacEachern, "tissue specimens were thrown into a pail. Nobody bothered to save them...
Impressionists. In Springfield, Mass., Custodian Alexander Caranicholas went to the hospital and Custodian Frank Klupa went to court after fighting over the use of a mop-pail in the Museum of Fine Arts...