Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their regular quarterly purchases, 15% of their annual requirement of materials, deliveries to be spread over six months. In addition he wanted every family in the U. S. to buy $79 worth of merchandise over normal needs for three months. His point: Buying in advance & in excess would insure workmen of continued employment for a definite period, enable them to help conditions by increasing their expenditures. The committee found the plan worth submitting to the public to determine its reaction...
Revolution in Paraguay last week was No. 7. Student-patriots banged shut their books. Radical workmen threw down their tools. Down the broad, bright streets of Asuncion they marched, an ugly cat-calling mob, to pull the political tail of Paraguay's sleek, feline President Jose Guggiari...
...colporteur was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son in a Paris cafe much frequented by North African workmen. A young kabyle became greatly excited. 'It is my life you are reading!' he cried. 'I am the prodigal son.' And he rushed out into the night...
...after the Akron went out into the world, workmen in the dock at Akron began laying out jigs on the floor in the form of great rings into which the main frames of the new ship, ZRS-5, are to be assembled. So confident was the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of the Akron's acceptance that as early as mid-summer President Paul Weeks Litchfield gave orders for the duralumin sheets for the new ship, and on July 1 fabrication of segments was begun. By last week much of the material had been fabricated and delivered to the dock. With...
...Five Communists and one police-man were pinked. In Brunswick, 75,000 Hitlerites assembled to receive new swastica standards from their chief. Intoxicated by blaring bands, shouting orators, and the roar of airplane motors the young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected to die. Brunswick police, hopelessly outnumbered, telephoned frantically for tanks and armored cars...