Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have lived for over a year in Russia so that I feel I can speak with some knowledge. . . . In our own group of 32 engineers and their wives, and in the group of over 200 American skilled workmen with their families living near us and working on the auto plant, there have been no cases of drinking among the women and few among the men. The Russians all remark upon the small amount of drinking indulged in by Americans, and certainly Mr. Warren's remark . . . is without foundation. There is not a woman here who could, under any stretch...
...higher rate. . . . Stability is on the ascendancy. The underlying forces of recovery are asserting themselves. . . ." Ship Steadying. "We have assured the country from panic. . . . We have steadily urged the maintenance of wages. . . . We have sustained the people in 21 [drought] States. . . . We are saving our farmers and workmen through the tariff. : . . We are holding down taxation. . . . We are rigidly excluding immigration. . . . We shall keep this ship steady in the storm. . . . We will prevent any unnecessary distress. . . . We will recover from the Depression...
...excavations at Troy were successful but they found no Homeric treasure. The day before digging was to stop the two Schliemanns, standing together, saw the glint of gold. With great presence of mind they dismissed the workmen, finished the digging themselves, smuggled the treasure away in Sophia's red shawl. Technically all such finds belonged to the Turkish Government, but Schliemann got safely away with it, finally gave it to the Berlin Museum...
Manhattan workmen demolishing old. deserted buildings to make way for Radio City (TIME, March 16), last week ceased their clatter while one of them went into a musty cellar and brought up a hatful of squirming kittens. Behind him trailed a proud, wild mother tabby. He said: "That makes 75 kittens we've rescued since we started work less than two weeks ago. We aren't always able to take the mother cat, and when we can't catch her . . . the men just work around the little family until the little ones are strong enough...
Though they will spend their money and playtime at Las Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would...