Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the budget provides for building a second super-cruiser like the famed Ertsatz Prcussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). As pacifists, the Socialists stomached this hateful appropriation only when Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich consented to find the money by doubling the German surtax, i.e. poor Socialist workmen who naturally pay no surtax (a luxury of the rich) will not pay one pfennig toward the new war boat...
...hangar thrown open for the first time in two years to the gaze of the curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
Grimly, sweltering Edward of Wales made known that he would open the Exposition on the scheduled date (March 14), no matter how far from complete it might be. Day & night more than 1,000 exposition workmen sweated, hurried...
...demonstrator for American Cirrus Engines, Inc., crashed with her plane through a factory roof during the National Air Races of 1929 in Cleveland. She sued her employers for $275,000, returned to England. Last week a referee in Jersey City, N. J. awarded Lady Heath $3,850 under the Workmen's Compensation Act, as out-of-court settlement...
...ruining Europe to have Germany underbidding all markets. Neither is it desirable that German employers should make German workmen the world's coolies. The whole idea of the Young Plan is dangerous in the extreme. The Dawes plan could not have been carried through. The Young Plan, for the moment, gave Germany lighter burdens, but tried to fix this burden by transforming it from a debt to States into a debt to private people...