Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While directors were trying to think of an answer 5,000 workmen walked out? the first strike in the company's history. At 12 p. m. the Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading...
Enterprise. In the famed Herreshoff Yards at Bristol, R. I., almost simultaneously with Shamrock V against which her backers hope she will race, workmen with a donkey engine gently lowered and launched the Enterprise, first and smallest of four yachts planned by rival U. S. syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie...
Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...
...jobs for every five applicants. In New York breadlines grew longer and longer. A 20-year record for sheltering men, women and children at the Municipal Lodging House was broken. Employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard hit rock bottom when the U. S. laid off 1,156 skilled workmen, one-third of the yard's force. Meanwhile businessmen waited for the predicted industrial pickup...
...Calais, centre of the machine-made lace industry, an employers' and workmen's committee of seven called politely at the offices of U. S. consul General James G. Carter, explained that what they were going to do was not directed against the people or the Government of the U. S. Then, while the voice of Henri Ravisse, Vice President of the Association of Lace and Tulle Manufacturers, boomed through loudspeakers, "Be calm! Be calm!" 20,000 burghers of Calais paraded mournfully through the streets...