Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtailment of Miami's racing season (TIME, Jan. 25), came tempting news last week. Mexico's National Railway offered thoroughbred owners "a sharp reduction" in shipping rates from the border to Mexico City. Reason: on the outskirts of the capital, on land owned by the Mexican Government, workmen are putting the finishing touches on a magnificent new horse park, the Hipódromo de las Américas. When it opens March 6 it will bring back to Mexico a sport that vanished with the Revolution...
...great transport streaked down. It remained on the field several hours refueling, then took off toward the sea. Usually passengers scurry to the airport building to escape the heat, to sip cafezinho (half black coffee, half Brazilian sugar). But no human being left this plane, and none save authorized workmen got near...
...Shipping shortages will keep most of the 10,000,000-man U.S. armed forces at home, thousands of miles from the closest battlefront, until more workmen build more ships to transport them...
Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
...agitator. But their grievances were real: food costs had soared far beyond the reach of their pittance, which in two years, despite increases of more than 50%, had barely moved above the real value of 20 to 30? a day for unskilled labor, slightly higher for skilled workmen...