Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billowed in from the sea. It blurred the outlines of the ancient town and muffiled the hammers in the shipyard where hundreds of workmen tortured English oak into ships and more ships for King William, scotching the Sun King, so they thought, with every hammer-blow...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
Eagle's troubles took on the quality of slapstick when at the same time Eagle workmen in the State of Veracruz presented the greediest set of labor demands in world history. Plainly hatched in the baroque imagination of some Mexico City politician, they threatened a strike unless Eagle gave its workers: 1) a 25% cut of the profits; 2) a workers' polo field and a stable of polo ponies; 3) an 18-hole golf course; 4) a swimming pool and complete athletic equipment; 5) a technical school; 6) a share in the management; 7) annual free round-trips...
...Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters...
Accompanied by a group of Harvard and M.I.T. Freshmen, Hall had arrived in East Jaffrey yesterday morning to try out the new Monadnock trail, which was built by CCC workmen and opened last Friday...