Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a hefty swipe of a stainless steel shovel, President Benjamin F. Fairless started work last week on U.S. Steel Corp.'s new $400 million plant near Morris ville, Pa. The "Fairless Works" will pour 1,800,000 tons of steel a year, add about 5% to Big Steel's capacity. But the Morrisville plant was just the start of a rush; Jones & Laughlin, Armco Steel and Bethlehem were also hustling to multiply their capacity, along with a swarm of hastily formed new steel companies...
...shot above, Dave Warden (44), having taken a shovel pass from Carroll Lowenstein is starting around left...
...Sleep. The day was drizzly, so wet that groundkeepers at the Polo Grounds had to shovel sawdust around the mound to give Maglie some solid footing. He struggled with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...
...worded orders or directives from a comfortable central office, but whose faces seldom, if ever, would be seen by the workers or their immediate superiors. It takes more than just words to teach anything, it takes examples and repeated demonstrations of right methods, even the correct use of a shovel or wheelbarrow, tools which many Koreans have never seen...
...Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...