Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquidate the plant. In 18 hours of bidding, they bought $5,000,000 worth of idle equipment that once had hummed busily under the hands of 1,200 workers. To Wheeling, the auctioneer's machine-gun chant was an old familiar dirge; for years, thousands of its skilled workmen have looked on helplessly as, one after another, the gates of its plants have closed for good. Once-thriving Wheeling is a prime example of an urgent problem: the depressed area...
...Harvard-Cornell expedition team Sardis included 17 students and faculty members and 200 workmen under the direction of George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, and A. Henry , professor at Cornell...
...hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen, and the saint's pet cat went along in a basket...
Although the construction of the new Health Center has fallen somewhat behind schedule, Farnsworth expected the $6 million facility to open in September. The high water table on the Mt. Auburn St. site posed foundation problems, which have now been solved. Workmen have poured concrete for the two basements, and are now working on the first of ten stories...
Never before had the workmen at Barillet's-the leading stained-glass studio of Paris-known anyone quite like the intense, wild-haired American artist who had come to them in 1958. Abraham Rattner, 65, was embarked on the most ambitious project of his life, and he seemed unable to tear himself away from it for a minute. He pored over Jewish holy books for inspiration, spent each day at Barillet's rejecting and selecting pieces of glass, watching every move the artisans made as they went about their centuries-old task. The result was worth the effort...