Word: workmen
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Exporting Profits. Though they have been trading on the east coast of Africa for centuries, most of East Africa's Asians have taken root in this alien land only since 1895, when the British brought in 32,000 Indian workmen to build the narrow-gauge railway that opened the interior to colonization. Asians quickly turned from railroad building to trade, and so completely dominated commerce that until 1919 the rupee was the official currency of East Africa...
...darkness a long line of workmen, peering over a bank of earth, see their factory burned by the Germans, and as the camera moves in a moving frieze from face to firelit face, the faces slowly in the mind become one face: the image of Neapolis Agonistes, the image of all men who inhabit the dark night of tyranny...
...peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage of a vacationer returning from South Africa, then whispered, "Man, what does a hop look like...
...years ago, the government should have set into operation a massive study program, perhaps leading to the establishment of a National Employment Agency, to aid in the job of re-settling displaced workers. It should have set up rules for compensating workmen put out of work by machines; and it should have begun collecting information from scattered employers intending to introduce payroll-reducing machinery so that regional and national "automation maps" could be drawn, and plans made in advance for areas or industries that will be especially hard-hit. It is little comfort to speak of what should have been...
...radar, Standard Radio (a Swedish subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska Flygmotor will build the souped-up JT8D engine under license from Pratt & Whitney. Slated to reach quantity production in 1969-70, Viggen is expected to keep 10,000 Swedish workmen busy for several years and to pour at least $600 million into the coffers of Swedish industry...