Word: werk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. Colonel De Long's brainchild had grown into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another...
...twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like us die niet bang zijn voor hard werk [who are not afraid to work hard], and at least we won't be crowded out of a living. Sure, it's a big risk to go off like this, but it would be a bigger risk to stay...