Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units" now defined by Webster's Dictionary...
...mind was a vast plan for a combined land and seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
First public notice of Montague's golf was written two years ago by famed Sportswriter Grantland Rice. Sportswriter Rice heard that Montague had, 1) played Crosby using a baseball bat, a rake and a shovel and beaten him, 2) broken the course record at Palm Springs four days in a row, with a 61 the last day, 3) picked a bird off a telegraph wire with a golf ball at 170 yards, 4) been called by onetime U. S. Amateur Champion George Von Elm, who had played with him daily for a month, the "greatest golfer in the world...
...Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared to run for mayor by the incumbent's daughter Trudy (Joan Fontaine). Thereupon ensues a harmless set of political antics, most notable consequence of which is that Playboy Jimmy is finally dared to kiss Trudy...
...have read with great interest your article on the opening of Great Lakes navigation under Business & Finance in TIME, April 26, but take exception to your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling...