Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, workmen had been hustling to decorate Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Red China's monster rallies. Up around the square went pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. On the facade of the gate towers went huge pictures of sunflowers bending to the sun, symbolic of the world's people being drawn to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. And on the north wall, dwarfing all the other portraits, was a tinted image of the sun god himself...
Construction on the underpass begins this week. Workmen will cut down trees next to Memorial Hall and begin widening Quincy St. These preliminaries, including the moving of utilities located in the path of the construction and the building of temporary roads, will continue through the winter. Actual digging on the underpass is scheduled to begin on April 1 and be finished by June...
Some of the library's other new facilities, such as the snack bar on the top floor, the language laboratory, and the movie theatre will not be opened immediately. Workmen are now installing electrical fixtures and putting rugs down on the library's penthouse floor...
Last week, with the fall of the ultimate symbol of Britain's once great empire, there was no bugle, no ceremony, no tears. Workmen simply replaced the sign on the Colonial Office's old headquarters near Whitehall with one reading "Commonwealth Office...
...biggest customer, Canada buys 25% of American exports; it sells the U.S. 70% of its exports. Canada might export even more, but many of its tariff-protected industries remain inefficient by U.S. standards, pay their employees less than similar U.S. workmen earn, and suffer a worrisome brain drain to the south...