Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australia may have a shortage of productive workmen, but it has no shortage of bookies (who, in Australia, are highly respectable gentry). Aussies, who hate to miss a chance to get a lot for a little, play the horses heavily. In sports-mad Brisbane, the favorite race-track bet is a long-shot version of the U.S. daily double-a combined long-odds bet on two races. Some bookmakers, known as "doubles fielders" will not accept bets of any other kind...
...British Workmen's Compensation Act recognizes writer's cramp as a compensable disease under "Dangerous Trades"; in the U.S., where the disorder has no such official standing, it is comparatively rare...
Surplus Food. Seven hundred people -peasants, workmen, other townspeople -jammed the hotel's auditorium to capacity. On the stage, the speaker's table was covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side...
...disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen to blacken his lily-white doorstep...
...leaders got most of London's dockmen back to work after four days of shipping jams that threatened serious food shortages. The Glasgow strikers accepted a Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...