Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years ago party of investigators from the Business School fstigue laboratory, under the direction of D. B. Dill, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry, spent six weeks last summer in field work at the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. The party was interested particularly in the effect on workmen of conditions of intense heat and high humidity...
...shifted to the Panama Canal Zone, where conditions of high temperature and great humidity prevail. This year Boulder City was chosen because of the high temperatures whish had been reported there the are the humidity, and the led opportunity for studying the effect of these conditions on the workmen assembled at Hoover...
Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...manufacturing family needs a strong theme to hold it together. Authoress Bentley's theme is the old one about how machines, as they are gradually installed at Syke Mill, drive a painful wedge between employer and employes. The Oldroyds own Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts...
...only thing turned on. Already in action were five of the nine great turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly all of its 1,400 miles. It will irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres. Workmen are hurrying to finish aluminum, steel and machine tool plants at the dam site. Soviet statisticians boast that it will serve a population...