Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leather-lunged Bobby Breen, 12, retired from work as a cinemasinger. Reason: his voice is changing...
Aging, grey Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...
...tribute to the public-relations finesse of his opponents, who issued their statements to the press at night, forced newsmen to call Willkie by phone for his replies, which ran at the tail end of stories in morning papers. Said he: "Apparently, the foes of the utilities prefer to work under cover of darkness. At least their strategy requires me to stay at home at night, to be on hand for inquiries from the press, and that is probably salutary...
...American Chain & Cable Co., Inc. plant, last month locked the public out of much of its grounds, went to work on a U. S. Government order for tank treads...
...York Safe & Lock Co., has built some of the world's largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard at work building carriages for the U. S. Army's three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The carriages are so intricate that the dismantled parts take up 52 square feet of floor space, and the most that can be produced is ten or twelve per month. The company also had on its books...