Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stadium in 1903, returning the honors of a decade before. Myron Witham's Green eleven marched through to the first coveted victory, and a new precedent in the old rivalry. Thirty years ago the scene in the Stadium must have been very different from what we will see today; workmen still busy on the bowl end left their work to watch the game which was new to many of them. This game in the unfinished Stadium was a memorable one to Dartmouth at all events, with a showing of potential power far greater than that required...
...flight of the brokers ceased as suddenly as it began. And while Wall Street jubilantly referred to it as the "modern Boston Tea Party," New Jersey realtors plummeted into gloom. President Whitney of the Stock Exchange halted his workmen and negotiated a settlement with Newark's Mayor Ellenstein. The brokers' gesture had cost them some $100,000, but this they could easily meet with $100 initiation fees collected from the 1,300 applicants for membership in the proposed Jersey exchange...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
Uncle Sam says the idea of the system is to give more people work and raise wages, yet he fires his own employees and lowers the wages of those he keeps. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., he has fired between 50 and 75 skilled workmen who made $100 to $125 per month, and has supplanted them with unskilled soldiers at $17.50 per month. These men are now unemployed, many of them having been faithful civil service employees of Uncle Sam for from ten to 20 years...
...Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later he was toughened in the rough frontier town of Lemont, Ill. where Negro workmen, when killed on the job, were dumped on the rock pile and covered up with canal excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good practical engineer, a good practical politician with the Sanitary District. His first wife died in 1918. Four years later he married a woman 15 years...