Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
...destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every man, woman and child...
...abandoned plant of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., longtime maker of air-cooled automobiles. When Franklin closed down in 1934 it left not only a plant once valued at $3,000,000 but also, as Carrier Corp. observed in a letter to stockholders fortnight ago, an "excellent quality of workmen available in Syracuse in generous quantities." The plant was taken over by the city for taxes. When Syracuse heard that Willis Carrier was thinking of moving, it told him if he would move into the old Franklin plant it would make him a good price. When Mr. Carrier said...
...participate in any coercion or any threats of bodily harm or damage to any employe, the property of any employe or the company or in any violence or unlawful act to enforce the settlement of any differences that may arise between this company and me or my fellow workmen...
...falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...