Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...From Germany last week, newsmen reported that the Ford plant at Cologne, which had somehow escaped destruction by bombing, was back in production for a while, at least. From German-made parts and stock on the shelves, workmen were turning out close to ten light trucks a day. ¶ From Moscow came word that one of Russia's titanic tank plants would be reconverted to mass-produce a luxury passenger automobile for better-heeled Soviet citizens...
Strolling through the White House grounds one day last week, Harry Truman spied workmen digging out the stump of an old, diseased poplar tree. He stopped to watch. Result: the President of the United States was photographed in the friendly, homely pose of a typical sidewalk superintendent...
After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...
...another plant, where a man was suspended three days for sleeping on the job, fellow workmen walked out, stayed away until the suspension expired. At still another, workers left the job because a telephone close to their machines was taken out, in the interest of better production. Workers at another plant stopped work for a meeting on grievances, found they had none to mention, went back to work again...