Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...this latter day it is rare to find any trace of the boys who didn't make good. Moral victories cover up the short end of the score and the dice are cleverly loaded so that everybody wins an automobile and a radio, and forgets that workmen and vagabonds have no beer...
Demolition of the remnants of the old Locker Building which was destroyed by fire early in the morning of January 15 was begun yesterday by workmen of the American Building Wrecking Company...
...acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since King William had his idea about the woods in Hampshire. Workmen are pulling down wire fences, putting up rails, stone. Some of the farms will be rented "under strict agreement" and the rents, like King William's pigs, will help pay for the hunting...
...Radical, Señor Irigoyen has put through such advanced legislation as the bill providing full-pay pensions for all middle-aged workmen. As an Autocrat, he holds every week a semifeudal and entirely unofficial court before which any Buenos Aires bootblack or beef baron who dares to do so may appear and tell his troubles. As an "original," Hipólito Irigoyen is rapidly turning white the hair of Argentina's more orthodox statesmen...