Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotunda, 96 ft. below the dome, workmen unpacked the statue of Thomas Jefferson, raised it section by section to its black marble pedestal. The sun, streaming between the pillars, cast moving patterns of light and shadow over the workers. Their voices echoed somberly in the great room. A few visitors peered...
...workmen finished. The statue of Thomas Jefferson-in plaster until the end of World War II makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary...
...week, and get paid on a piecework basis (if we don't produce, we don't earn). We are subject to industrial accidents. Some of us are killed every day. In the event of serious injury or death, our dependents receive a small settlement under the Workmen's Compensation Act, or we receive a small settlement, and are faced with our working days being over. If we are sick, our salary stops. We are paying the taxes that go to pay the salaries of the men in service...
...immediate cause of the outbreaks was Germany's attempt to drain France of all available manpower. The Germans, taking over from Pierre Laval the job of recruiting an additional 40,000 French workmen, launched one of the biggest manhunts in history. They sought workmen to build up the fortifications of Hitler's "festung Europa," for work in German factories, for services of supply behind German lines in Russia...
...Army mortar shells, but Major Dinwiddie could find not one armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said Baird. "Every employe his own guard, and they all can shoot...