Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Older: "In the late eighties, owing to new inventions there was a labor depression. Ironworkers struck. They demanded eight hours a day. . . . Hearst wrote: 'The workmen are merely demanding what is reasonable. They should have it at once.' The eight-hour day was granted ironworkers. Rejoicingly Hearst wrote that it created jobs for thousands of unemployed...
...Specification House" (TIME, Sept. 2). Starting last year Reynolds offered to furnish most of the materials and equipment needed to build a home. Reynolds engineers take the plans of client's architect, draw up specifications for factory-fabricated units, which are sold through local dealers, assembled by local workmen. Reynolds supervises the job, will even arrange for financing...
...lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad. In at least three places there...
...acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green to energize workmen, part white for light and cleanliness. Two hours before closing time, flagging workmen were to be daily revived by a burst of stirring music. But the five-acre room, finished in 1932, still stands empty and idle...
...Golden Gate, with the east by San Francisco Bay. Travelers in either direction have had the choice of circling far to the south around the bottom of the bay or crossing it on one of four ferry lines. Last week the end of this ancient inconvenience came closer when workmen hoisted a 50-ft. eyebar from a barge below, finally joined the two halves of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, linked San Francisco to the east for the first time. Simultaneously, the California Railroad Commission concluded long deliberations, decided to allow electric trains to cross the huge span...