Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hinky Dink kept sober (his wife was a temperance worker), honored his word, and ruled with an iron hand. He made and unmade mayors and chiefs of police. Year after year he used his power brazenly, openly, ruthlessly to squeeze bribes from all who sought municipal favor...
What was the trouble? Said one worker: "There is urgent work to do: anyone can see there are no houses; the water supply has broken down; land needs reclaiming; we must have sanitation. And we are building a road that is parallel to another." Explained another: ". . . They make us do useless work, then sack us because it is useless...
Sedosan, with the well-known unity trade mark, is the most sensational discovery of the new age-more effective than aspirin . . . more victorious than penicillin. For Sedosan . . . cures everything . . . Sedosan stills the worker's hunger, protects the freezing intellectuals . . . eliminates "reactionaries" . . . transforms Nazis, according to a guaranteed process, into screaming red SEDers...
...splendid achievement, said the President. But he also wanted to sound a sober note of warning. Said he: "I hope every businessman, worker, farmer and consumer will take to heart this sentence [from the report]: 'An all-out emphasis on production of finished goods and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately before...
...backers, the push-button world apparently held no terrors. Said a representative of International Business Machines (whose motto is "Think!"): "Why, it's a great era for the individual worker. Just think, instead of just taking dictation, a secretary can now serve her boss as accountant, paymaster, inventory expert, and Lord only knows what else...