Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative fields where the Legislature could not hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...
Scarring the green breast of one of the fields on Motormaker Henry Ford's "Fairlane" estate near Detroit is a 60-foot plowed furrow. Around it Ford workmen have built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole...
...workmen will be re-employed to build it in the long disused River Rouge "B" plant (factory for Ford's Wartime Eagle boats...
Lest advocates of WPA, most of whose money goes straight into workers' pockets, think that PWA is gravy only for contractors and material supply men, Harold Ickes took occasion to mention, in a public letter to Franklin Roosevelt last week, that in six years the workmen employed on PWA projects pocketed $1,205,452,000 in wages...
First favorite to win The Derby since 1935, Blue Peter rewarded his owner with $52,000, a gold cup and a Cheshire cheese, put a few shillings into the pockets of millions of British workmen and brought modest fortunes ($140,000 each) to the two U. S. citizens who held Sweeps tickets on Blue Peter...