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...Face. Tossy's usual job is boring the coal to receive dynamite charges. Some days he works as a loader, heaving coal with a pan shovel (like an oversized soup spoon) onto a shaker conveyor. By working two overtime shifts, he grosses about $80 a week, but income tax, union dues and other check-offs leave him only $55 take-home...
...chairman of the board of Chase National), did fine at a short job in a new setting. When his estate at Darkharbor, Me. was threatened by a forest fire, Winthrop joined 200 other summer people and natives, sweated manfully through more than three hours of broom-and-shovel work with the mercury...
...education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give U.S. Japanese a fair break...
...Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen," said one Smollett character, "who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected -with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counselors, and clergy...
...pick & shovel corps of science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished men and civilizations. Recent doings of the diggers...