Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours before the shaft could be pumped dry. Whitey went back down. "He deserves a knighthood," said a worker, "but he doesn't even have a job." Others relieved him. The lateral tunnel began to cave in. The low talk of the workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there...
...wore on, party headquarters in Transport House began to worry. Worry soon turned into panic. By 4 p.m., Labor ran one seat ahead of the Conservatives. Only South London's staunchly Socialist Clapham had not been heard from. At 4:01 the phone rang. The party worker who answered it turned pale. "Clapham's gone!" he cried...
...Said Thackrey: "I was given the choice of supporting the Atlantic pact or resigning. I resigned." What Ted meant was that his estranged wife had fired him. As she resumed the title of publisher, Dolly explained in a Post editorial: "Irreconcilable differences on fundamental questions . . ." (Lamented the Daily Worker: "Mrs. Thackrey purged Mr. Thackrey . . . because he won't say 'yes' to an atomic war with the Soviet Union...
...ground to a stop because there was no carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...
Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...