Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this to go on, but oh boy, things would really be bad if they just laid off without the stagger...
...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...
...lineup for the match this afternoon will be Don Blackner, Gerry Murphy, Dave Aldrich, Charlie Thompson, Jack Faircloth, and John Loeb, playing in singles. The doubles teams will be Murphy and Chase, Peterson, Thompson and Wooster Wood, and Roger Swanson and Peter Bien...
...Shooting began at Boreham Wood on Nov. 8 ... ended on Feb. 4, and on the 11th Director Victor Saville, together with Frank Clark, his English cutter, brought a rough cut of the picture to Hollywood, where we are presently engaged in preparing for its first sneak preview. Once . . . previewed and edited ... and the final musical score added . . . Conspirator will then be finished and ready for the world markets...
...Whitney's twelfth annual mixed exhibition of contemporary U.S. sculpture and watercolors. On the whole, the watercolors had more quality than the stone, steel, wood and bronze figures on display. But if only because it was less familiar, sculpture stole the show...