Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shovel handles-shovel helves...
Katharsis. In Perry, N.Y., a classified ad appeared in the Perry Herald, asking nothing, offering nothing, merely complaining: "Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week. Margaret Keelty, North Center Street...
...undaunted. Said Storekeeper Floyd Bagley: "It's good exercise." Accountant Grover Lowe: "I've got a boy in England and another up north. . . . This gives me a chance to do something." Verne Hickey, Chamber of Commerce president: "Merely a matter of changing a golf stick for a shovel . . . Didn't even have to change my stance much...
Like the U.S. Government, some U.S. defense plants have overexpanded since Pearl Harbor, are now temporarily a crazy quilt of inefficient use of manpower-too many workmen, too few foremen, long waits, misplanned work, shovel-leaning by workers who have nothing to do. One bad example was turned up last week in Seattle, where for two weeks Reporter Don Magnuson worked in a shipyard building destroyers, found enough loafing and inefficiency for a series of shocker stories for the Seattle Times. Reported Magnuson...
...give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into Parco. Union Pacific trains ran again...