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...group that really did transcend the script was the chorus of pompous Peers. In a swirl of top hats and colorful capes, they strut and sniff hilariously, snubbing the audience with a chorus of "bow, bow, thou lower middle classes, tradesmen, masses...
...they succeed while other pioneers failed? Howard, a former editor of the Wrights' papers at the Library of Congress, suggests a kind of sibling synergy. Individually, the brothers were smart and handy. Together, their complementary skills and temperaments set off a brilliant chain reaction. The Wrights were also practical tradesmen who could finance their flying experiments through the cycle company. The cost of building and launching the 1903 Flyer was, according to Orville, less than $1,000, while the U.S. Government spent $50,000 to have Samuel Langley construct a similar aircraft that fell into the Potomac River seconds after...
...businesses as well. At a Ford Motor plant in Batavia, Ohio, computers keep a running record of each employee's absences. Perfect attendance for a year can bring a prize of $500. Industrial companies have been less inclined than service firms to impose stringent computer monitoring of employee work. Tradesmen and other blue- collar workers tend to be highly resentful of automated supervision and frequently find ways to circumvent or sabotage it. Harley Shaiken, associate professor of labor and technology at the University of California at San Diego, tells in his 1984 book Work Transformed that in one particular factory...
...ruburbs harbor run-down Victorian-and Federal-era homes that natives often refer to by the name of the families who built them a century ago. They are advertised as "handyman's specials," and newcomers are dazzled by their charm and possibilities. Young homeowners cannot afford to have tradesmen restore them, so they hammer and paint in their own spare time. Conversation at backyard barbecues focuses not on which country club is the "right" one but on discoveries like Rube Goldberg plumbing in the bathroom or death-house wiring in the basement...
...before the Christmas holidays find you broke, frantically tearing around in search of gifts to bring home or, even worse, desperately scouring bulletin boards for cheap rides to Des Moines, cheer up. You're in exactly the same position as a century of Harvard predecessors. But enterprising Harvard Square tradesmen have always been willing to ease the students' plight with their cornucopia of wares--all in hope of augmenting their own Christmas bounties. Here's a sampling of vintage ads--the best of their years--from holiday seasons past...