Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise to work," he says. "Gypsy men ain't built like ordinary men. They ain't fitted for shovel work. They're high-strung and they rupture easy...
...Said Missouri's neat, grey Harry S. Truman: "Tremendous sums of money are simply being thrown away with a scoop shovel. . . . [The Army & Navy] know how to waste money better than any other organizations I have ever had anything to do with...
...soldier in the Middle East drew a cartoon for the Stars & Stripes. We will tell you what the cartoon portrayed. John L. Lewis, in miner's dress, was throwing dirt with a coal shovel upon the freshly marked grave of some kid in North Africa. . . . God knows it expressed the attitude of the overwhelming majority of soldiers in this and any other theater...
...graves are being dug now by bulldozers-there is no time nor labor available to dig them with shovels. The bulldozers plow back & forth until a space seven feet deep has been scooped out, which is long enough to place eight bodies 18 inches apart. Then into the collective grave small one-foot deep individual graves are scooped out by shovel. Thus, each man lies with seven of his comrades...
Never intended to replace reinforced concrete, soil cement has far exceeded engineering expectations. Engineers had known that the ground where cement bags were shaken out soon hardened. But soil cement stayed in the rule-of-shovel stage until...