Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks are deceiving. The damage appears to be substantial and even frightening to the untrained eye, and workmen have to tear the walls down to the level where the bricks are bulging and cracked. Only one of the faults has been corected, so far, but one of the workmen said that his company was not going to work on the other crack because "Harvard doesn't have enough money...
India represents the third major attempt of the traditional Asian mind to come to terms with the modern world. Industry has begun to change the country, "has even begun to instill a sense of time and punctuality-here and there. In the fall of every year, Hindu workmen decorate their workshops and literally worship the god in their machines. But the machine does not require worship; it requires hard work, precision and comprehension. Sensing a lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what...
...expects to complete the reserve book system within two weeks, and the other facilities will be finished within four months. The last workmen should be out by January, she said...
Before long, disembarking jet passengers may be surprised to see workmen behind them busily carting off the whole insides-seats, galley, cabin partitions-of their aircraft. In Seattle last week, United Air Lines showed off the plane that can do the strip: the 600-m.p.h. Boeing 727 QC (for Quick Change), first airliner designed to moonlight as a cargo plane after turning in a full day, and fat profits, as a passenger carrier...
...earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven U.S. and foreign lines have ordered 93 of the $5.1 million planes. United...