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...Loami, Ill., W. H. Workman, 68, carved himself a set of false teeth from a hickory plank. Once a month he soaks them in olive...
...present time the filling station that formerly stood on the corner of Boylston Street and Memorial Drive, has been taken down, and on that site a workman's shanty is being built, preparatory to the actual construction of House Unit 3 which is to begin in the near future. Inside the plant the machinery has disappeared, and workmen are busy tearing down the walls of the Plant itself...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...
...wake -such as the Steyr scandal in Vienna and the Isotta-Fraschini affair in Milan (TIME, March 31). Back in London, "Sir P.," who is after all an Englishman, did not join Mr. Ford in lambasting his countrymen. Instead, for his part, he discreetly praised the European workman, thus: "Laboring under the same conditions and receiving the same high wages the European workman is more efficient than the American, who is no miracle worker...
...figures. In June the special U. S. Austin will appear, is already being advertised as a cocky little bantam, has a bantam rooster trademark. *The International Labor Office adjoining the League of Nations in Geneva, is preparing for Mr. Ford a report which will enable him to pay his workman in a given European country a wage sufficient to buy in that country what a Ford worker in Detroit can buy with his wage...