Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vexed and wroth were English tycoons last week when Sir Percival gave to the Spectator, famed London weekly review, a signed article by Mr. Ford in which the latter served notice that all Ford workmen will be paid at least ?5 a week at his new English factory in Dagenham, while factories next door pay less than ?3, and English textile mills pay as little as ?2 75 (TIME...
...generally received as part of the practical science of business." Parenthetically Mr. Ford interjected: "It has been said that in England we employ only teetotalers. That is not true, but we insist on sobriety. We can only pay good wages to sober workmen...
...into the main room of the Elevated Power Plant on Boylston Street, now in the process of being torn down. Through the hazy air, filled with the fumes of acetylene torches and the odor of lubricating oil, the towering shapes of huge grey generators loomed above the forms of workmen, busily engaged in the job of stripping former dynamos of their essential parts...
...additional facts. The longest vehicular tunnel in the world at the present time is the 12-mile Simplon tunnel in Switzerland. With its approaches, the Channel Tunnel would be nearer 40 than 20 miles long. It should take about eight years to build, would employ about 7,000 British workmen...
...that workmen are more efficient under the Volstead Act is to pay a compliment to the virtues of home brew and dago red. . . . Prohibition has failed to prohibit...