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...nice bridge, probably-all $732,000 of it. But how is anyone going to park with people whirling around him in a rotary? Mr. Langsworth of Muuroo-Langsworth, the contractors for Eliot Bridge, conceded that it "might disturb one a bit." A workman was equally callous: "They'll just have to find another place further down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Link . . . | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

LIFE OF AN AMERICAN WORKMAN (219 pp.)-Walter P. Chrysler, with Boyden Sparkes-Dodd, Mead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Can Happen Here | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Quite Horatio. Chrysler died in 1940, but not before Satevepost Writer Boyden Sparkes had taken down his story. Life of an American Workman is one of those personal-success books that has Made in U.S.A. stamped all over it. It has the casual, conversational tone of a front-porch chat and the fascination that clings to every true story about the boy who reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Can Happen Here | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...workman repairing the circulation dock told the incarcerates that the man with the keys had "gone away." He added, with a grin, that he wouldn't be back for "an hour and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapped in Widener's Bowels, Scholars Dial Matchlit SOS | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...thought to be a dove. Now that she has moved to Socorro and the rainmaking studies are going full blast around her, it has been noticed that her bird looks more like a duck. It holds its head back on its shoulders in a way doves seldom do. Dr. Workman considers this apparent metamorphosis a favorable omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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