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Spring Offensive opens with a cast of East Anglian farmers and tradesmen organizing their local government for the land reclamation task. With the homely talk of people transacting their everyday affairs, they plan their campaign, put it into action. The rest of the tale is told through the eyes of a small boy evacuated from the city. He sees one old farm, gone to pot since World War I, rehabilitated with the aid of pooled machinery and labor. He learns that there must be no more of this business of farming the land properly only in wartime...
...Edith testify: "I have advertised my books in the way all tradesmen advertise their wares...
Meyer Davis is deferential to dowagers. Unlike Mr. Whiteman, he is not averse to bringing his men in at the tradesmen's entrance. He is wise about playing people's favorite numbers, keeps his men up on some 500 pieces, including old ballads and college songs as well as dance tunes. Meyer Davis hires only strong men who can play all night without intermissions between numbers. He grosses more than $4,000,000 a year. Asked how he does it, he avers with some accuracy: "Because I am the best in the business...
Rudolf Diesel was proud, sensitive, generous, an engineering genius, but not endowed with much money sense. He was a man of the world who spoke fluently not only German but French and English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography...
...workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly be looking for anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 skilled machinists, other specialty metal tradesmen. This week Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt reported that employers are waiving usual labor requirements, taking what they can get. He noted that one engineering company had hired an 89-year-old man from a State employment agency, that even the supply of migratory farm labor is shorter than...