Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cauliflower ear of the prize fighter is well known. Less familiar are the banged-up "dealer shins" of the junk dealer, garbage collector, truck driver, foundry worker...
Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...
Last week the lightning struck. In the Daily Worker, Browder was bitterly attacked by his onetime mentor-mild-mannered, 64-year-old William Z. Foster, old-line radical, thrice the Communist candidate for President of the U.S. Foster branded the No. 1 U.S. Communist an evangelist for a "capitalist Utopia." He added: "Such national unity, based on class peace with the monopolists, would be a first-class disaster to the workers...
...when he moved to Omaha, he knew the U.P. so well that President Carl Raymond Gray mostly let Bill Jeffers run it. Jeffers ran it, and with a hard hand. Many U.P. workers thought him tyrannical; all of them feared his red-faced, explosive wrath. Said one worker ruefully: "You do anything that isn't exactly according to the book and you'll soon find out who's running this road...
...laboratory worker (anonymous) who set out to answer this inhuman question reported the fly's feelings in the current British Medical Journal...