Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow seemed to feel that this uprising, which had been touched off by the Polish leaders in London, was none of Moscow's affair. London's Communist paper, the Daily Worker, declared that the revolt was a "bluff" staged by the London Poles to get credit for Warsaw's liberation. It appeared that the Red Army commander had not been consulted, nor had the Moscow-sponsored Polish Committee of Liberation...
...Congress disagreed most violently on the two questions the U.S. people wanted cleared up first: How much unemployment pay should a war worker expect when cutbacks and contract cancellations leave him jobless? Who should pay him-the states or the Federal Government...
Next day a Negro war worker, whose brother is in the Army, walked into Philadelphia's famed Independence Hall and hurled a one-pound paper weight at the Liberty Bell. As the deep note resounded he yelled: "Liberty Bell, oh Liberty Bell -liberty, that's a lot of bunk!" Police led him off to a hospital to have his head examined...
...attack on the V.D. front was described in San Francisco last week by its young instigators, Dr. Richard Alexander Koch (rhymes with gosh) and Journalist Arthur Colston Painter. Deciding to tackle venereal disease among factory workers, they asked labor unions to help by encouraging voluntary blood tests. At first suspicious, the unions finally consented when Koch and Painter promised to report the results only to the individual worker (not to his union or employer...
Queen Beaver and Beans. At Anchor age, Bud got a job as a construction worker; in his spare time built the Queen Beaver, a 19-ft. canoe made of Sitka spruce and canvas. In July 1942 they shipped the Queen north to Fairbanks, loaded her with $93 worth of canned foods and sacks of beans and flour, pushed off down the Yukon's Tanana tributary. The great river, first explored by Russians and men of the Hudson's Bay Company, rises in Canada's Yukon Territory and flows north west 2,300 miles into the Bering...