Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...
...Trove. In Minneapolis, workmen began tearing up a pavement, stopped in amazement: they had uncovered six bottles of pre-Prohibition brandy...
...vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about three-quarters of an inch. The pillars dated back to the restoration of the White House after the British burned it in 1814, but they would not become relics; Winslow's workmen got them back in plumb after weeks of work...
Within earshot of workmen's tools, the master of the White House spent a week heavy with routine work, light of newsmaking action. He was clearly pessimistic over getting the kind of OPA bill he wants out of the Senate-House stalemate. He took a whack at Congress by predicting that prices would go higher without a price control...
...Tory failure is all the more notable because Britons, whatever their hopes of the socialist future, find the present dreary beyond measure. Lawyers and engineers, as well as clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...