Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold his patent-rights in a bath-tub enamelling process. He raised $100,000. His first factory was a barn in his back yard; his first workman...
Prophesies as to the future relations between the workman, the job and the machine are contained in the latest work of Stuart Chase entitled "Machines, the Story and Machinery and its Human Effects" and published by the MacMillan company. It is written as a adventurous trip into an unknown and interesting field...
...American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly on the fact that the American employers are not afraid to pay high wages...
Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...
Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...