Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimmicks. When Viscardi applied to the Insurance Co. of North America for workmen's compensation insurance to cover his employees, North America's Herbert Stellwagen said: "I was horrified. Not one of them was insurable." Nevertheless, Viscardi persuaded Stellwagen to write a policy "with no gimmicks, hedges or qualifying clauses." In nine years there have been only three reportable accidents, an amazing record that brought a 48% cut in premiums. In addition, Viscardi says that absenteeism is very low and that there is very little extra cost for medical or other special facilities. Viscardi fires almost as fast...
...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...
Expanding Needs. For all their burgeoning, petrochemicals come from such highly automated plants that they have not created jobs in proportion to the gross output. Only a handful of aluminum-helmeted workmen are needed to watch gauges and run the plants. In some cases the raw materials are never seen by the workmen; they arrive by pipe and leave in other pipes as finished products. Twelve years ago, 40,000 employees in the industry turned out about 300,000 Ibs. each of petrochemicals a year; now 150,000 turn out 373,000 Ibs. each...
Telephones jangled, the switchboard blinked, and drifts of incoming mail accumulated on the desks. Workmen pushed office furniture around the corridors. The scene, in a suite of offices in Washington's International Cooperation Administration Building, was chaotic. Earlier in the week, President Kennedy had announced the formation of his Peace Corps of volunteer workers in underdeveloped countries (TIME, Feb. 24), and the half-organized headquarters was engulfed with requests for information, applications from would-be recruits. In other parts of the capital, the story was the same: Congressmen reported a deluge of mail; the White House was hard pressed...
...went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle the day before...