Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town of Kohler, started before the War, looks much like a Midwestern college town. Mr. Kohler built its dormitory-like American Club to house some 300 bachelor workers. Kohler Improvement Co. built its houses (mostly $5,000 and $7,000 homes) for Kohler workers at cost. Kohler Building & Loan Association took their first mortgages and Kohler Co. itself often took second mortgages. All a Kohler worker had to have was about 10% in cash. A town of handsome little homes. set back behind green hedges and green lawns on winding streets, Kohler has long been the perfect picture...
...incessant bombardment by the San Francisco Press not only helped to break the strike but turned an angry citizenry loose against the supposed revolutionaries. Husky young men wearing union buttons and proudly called "vigilantes" by the newspapers began making raids on Communist headquarters. First raid was on the Western Worker, Communist daily. Five carloads of raiders drew up before the building, hurled rocks through the windows, smashed down doors, made kindling wood of every stick of furniture, tore down red banners, smashed typewriters, destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes...
...circumstances to lead backdoor lives have one thing in common: an only child. John Forrester's is a son named Jack who, when he grows up to be a young man (Robert Young) hopes to be a theatre impresario like his father. Old John Forrester, now a backstage worker in a puppet show, goes to the first night of his son's first play, sees it fail. Later in the evening, disguised in whiskers, he visits young Forrester in his office, encourages him to try again. After the gala premiere of Jack Forrester's second play there arrives the inevitable...
When Ford's daily quota of 5,000 automobiles is all but reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8" insignia on a Ford hood becomes an imp resembling a male Betty Boop who summons the Ford parts to assemble themselves. The accompaniment gaily plays snatches from Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Mendelssohn's Spring Song. The connecting rods do an authentic square...
...good old anatomical word in England, "bum" in U. S. parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book...