Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Court. Mayor Allen turned the matter over to the board of aldermen, which voted to erect the barriers. At 7 the following morning, workmen were on Peyton and Harlan roads driving I beams into the pavement. The Negroes of Atlanta, represented by a new All-Citizens Committee composed of most Negro organizations in the city, refused to deal with the city until the barriers come down. Negroes have lost one suit in court to have the barriers torn down, but a further test is pending before superior court in Atlanta. Last week the board of aldermen considered a resolution...
Demolition of the Alumni Records Office, the first stay of the project to complete the Holyoke Center, will definitely begin sometime this Fall. Workmen have already started to move the valuable papers and documents to the office's new location near Soldiers Field...
...Fellini's autobiography. Mastroianni, at least, is playing the part of a motion picture director. Shooting last week at night on the shiny black sands of the beach at Ostia, the shivering cast was collected around a mysterious tower; rockets and satellites were scattered about, and workmen carried sheets of glass painted with unrelated scenes, such as the Pope being carried in a procession, for the cameras to shoot through...
...bustling 32-acre plant outside the Brazilian town of Sao Bernardo do Campo last week, coveralled workmen proudly rolled a pair of shiny new compact cars off the assembly line. Hardly had they done so when William Max Pearce, 49, general manager of Willys-Overland do Brasil, announced his plans to send the two cars-the first production models of the new Aero-Willys 2600-to Paris for next month's international auto exposition. Pearce and Willys had reason to be excited. The Aero-Willys is Brazilian from taillights to engine block-the first car to be completely designed...
...United States and Western Europe. Her capital resources are much smaller. The average American laborer, with ten times as much equipment to work with, produces six times as much as his Japanese counterpart. It is evident that Japanese industry cannot afford to pay the same wages to its workmen as can American industry, with its different and richer endowments...