Word: toolbox
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Strikers set up headquarters in the city's largest carbarn (without audible protest from the company). Up on a toolbox jumped burly, bull-voiced James Henry McMenamin, 43, to take command. He shouted: "It's white against black!" He well knew that the company's 600 Negro employes had hitherto worked peacefully (in menial jobs) beside other workers. But now, he pointed out, as motormen, they could sit on the same benches as whites. Cried McMenamin: "The colored people have bedbugs...
...things to hock. Now pawnshops-like the nation-are on a queer, priority-ridden, psychologically insecure spree. Despite typewriter freezing (which has stopped loans on a pawnshop specialty), despite the fact that no workman today would think of hocking his irreplaceable micrometers, calipers and toolbox, most U.S. pawnshops are in the money...
...black carrots came into the Lowell House dining room the other day, outraged Bellboys failed a few particularly unpalatable chunks on the bulletin board and began a campaign for cold carrots. The movement gained momentum and Miss Trickett, the dietitian, was bombarded with threatening notes. Happy members of the "toolbox" celebrated the victory of their campaign last night by munching carrots straight