Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does not increase the price of goods. It does entail a burden on the worker, but we have simultaneously endeavored to better the lot of the worker's family by setting up a workmen's fund...
...leader, he said, was a certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only foreign decorators, he insisted, had been gullible enough to buy his lemon wood...
...project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only $15 wood-burning stoves for heat, were obviously unsuited to the region's sub-zero winters. Whatever the reason, ten architects and draftsmen were brought from New York and under their direction workmen began to rip up the completed houses, dig cellars, add new wings, sunrooms, dining alcoves, fireplaces, porches. Thereafter two sectors of men labored in Reedsville. Sector I set up the ready-cut houses as they arrived, according to original specifications. Sector II tore apart the houses erected by Sector...
...smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just as it originally happened. Floodlights were turned on, cameras cranked. Result: On the screen, The March...
Norway's morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...