Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year was 1925, the grandson, 26-year-old Fowler McCormick, heir to International Harvester Co. millions. Fowler McCormick went to work at $35 a week for the company his other grandfather founded, lived in a $4-a-week boarding house, pitched horseshoes with his fellow workmen during lunch hour. From heaving 200-lb. pig iron ingots, he moved to engineering and on to sales, becoming assistant manager of domestic sales in 1933. Last week hard-working Fowler McCormick was elected vice president in charge of foreign sales...
Amid the savagery of Spain's abortive revolution month ago, brawny workmen slew several priests, chopped them into chunks and exposed the flesh in butcher shops tagged "pork...
With catlike tread, and with deft fingers, workmen have been engaged for the past several days in clambering about a raft moored in the middle of the Charles, and in stufllng oakum into the Weeks Bridge. The bridge has apparently developed some sort of weakness of the joints, and quantities of oakum are needed to prevent its collapse under the dainty feet of the Cadets. Due to the presence of heating pipes inside, the laborers game of ring around a rosy consists of opening the bridge up completely every morning, working for a short time on the interior, and then...
Recently freshmen have gazed with wonder and admiration at workmen carefully warming the stone gate with blast torches. One suggested termites as the cause of this activity...
Meanwhile in Vienna bronze casters and workmen of the firm of Julius Maschner & Son were working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb...