Word: workman
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...fine crew. One chap that worked in sweetshop. One bus conductor. One building workman. Two married men that of never been...
...attitude of men fellow workers toward their new competitors is a mixture of nose-out-of-joint and gallantry. They either let Minnie strictly alone or are much too helpful. Said one workman last week as news photographers posed a redhead at her lathe: "I ran that machine two years and nobody ever took my picture...
...Mein Kampf Hitler called Anton Drexler "a simple workman . . . little importance . . . not a soldier . . . weak and uncertain...
...weekly earnings by 31%. But the average German worker's weekly wage (in 1936) was $6.29; and one in every five was dependent on the Winter Relief Fund, which is made up of workers' "voluntary" contributions. Real achievements: Strength-Through-Joy cruises by which a workman could visit Madeira for $25 round trip, or spend a week in the Bavarian Alps for $11; vast expansion of theater, opera, concerts, adult education...
...Czecho-Slovakia a workman called "Old Vacek" ran a crane at the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen. One day a big ladle of molten lead being carried on Vacek's crane suddenly flipped over. It happened that a posse of German Army commissioners were passing beneath: 14 of them were burned to death. Old Vacek did not try to pretend accident. He dived out of his cab, 60 feet head first to the concrete floor...