Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened by force if necessary. With the cooperation of the local American Legion whose members undertook to patrol the city, the entire police force helped open the plant. Several hundred nonstriking workmen in automobiles with horns blowing, as well as men, women and children from the town flocked along to see the ousting of the pickets...
...Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose Workers of Philadelphia (4 each); Charles M. Schwab...
...that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death over its low parapet...
...orders and insurance fraternal orders. In the former classification, meeting largely as clubs with an interest in good works, are the Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Eagles, Shriners, Moose, Knights of Pythias. In the latter group, whose main purpose is social security through insurance, are the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, Maccabees, Independent Order of Foresters, and, largest of all, the Modern Woodmen of America who last week gathered in convention in Chicago...
Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...