Word: sealers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handyman. In Lincoln, Mass., John Joseph Kelliher, 69, decided that he would retire because of poor health, left vacant the jobs of police chief, constable, water commissioner, water department superintendent, moth superintendent, slaughtering inspector, dog officer and sealer of weights & measures...
...Mother's Day, a Manhattan store offered the "all-in-one shears, a many-armed gadget which can be used as a fish sealer, bottle opener, nutcracker, screw-cap opener, hook extractor, pliers, screw driver, or hammer...
...night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...Moines: Need color for story on Iowa Packing Co. walkout. What are duties of sausage stuffer? What is a check sealer? Or is it a scale checker...
...Moines' Iowa Packing Co., one H. Shapiro, a veteran who wanted to return as an 83f^-an-hour sausage stuffer instead of going back to his job as a 74^-an-hour check sealer, provided a test case for his union. After a four-day strike of 1,000 workers, the union won its demand that returning servicemen receive all promotions granted to colleagues in their absence...