Word: plumber
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...terrible to work with two big stars" like Lucille Ball and his wife Elizabeth Tayor. "Give me back the unknowns," he groaned. Still it is hard to believe that Burton could be totally upstaged while playing−as he does on Lucy's show−a Shakespeare-spouting plumber...
...another story, Barthelme summons up a glass mountain at the corner of 13th Street and Eighth Avenue. With the help of climbing irons and a plumber's friend, one of his fixated antiheroes tries to climb...
...cannot earn an income. You need to make work programs, diversion of the war economy into the civilian economy. We should break the control of the unions over the skilled trades. It's ridiculous that in a city like New York you have so much difficulty getting a plumber. Why couldn't the plumbers union let some blacks in? It's not going to hurt their pocketbook...
...employment. You have to provide income maintenance for those who cannot earn an income. You need make-work programs. We should break the control of the unions over the skilled trades. It's ridiculous that in a city like New York you have so much difficulty getting a plumber. Why couldn't the plumbers' union let some blacks in? Fourth, we must improve the quality of primary and secondary schools, particularly among minority people. In some schools, a kid goes to school twelve years and comes out on the fifth-grade level...
...entranceway. Only 4% of the apprentices in the union-regulated programs are black. Union leaders argue that the apprenticeship system is necessary to maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George Meany's rationale for that: the plumber must learn a greater variety of skills (Meany is a plumber). If blacks pass the rigid written tests needed to enter the apprenticeship program, they often fail the commonly rigged oral exams. One egregious case is that of Anderson L. Dobbins, a black...