Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flint-kote's "Sealzit" spray guns spray roofing on flat or free-form surfaces, may well make the shingle obsolete. Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping center was constructed with the True Gun. developed by Tulsa's Max True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
Nothing ever works quite the way it should in Indonesia. Scarcely had the red and white flags been put up to celebrate the nation's 15th independence day last week when workmen were back in the streets of Djakarta. Their task: to take down 12-ft.-high poster portraits of Guinea's President Sekou Toure and Egypt's Vice President Abdel Hakim Amer, both of whom had reneged, without notice, on promises to put in an appearance at the independence-day festivities...
...clause in Parliament's original authorizing law requiring the Bluebell line to operate not fewer than four trains a day, and it took another three years, with the line losing $160,000 a year, for the Transport Ministry to find a way around the law and stop service. Workmen were already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price: $90,000. In consolation, it offered to rent them...
When Harold Macmillan recently moved out, workmen began an extensive renovation of London's No. 10 Downing Street, official residence of Britain's Prime Ministers since 1735. A functionary last week cited a glaring instance of the antiquated state of things: "The Prime Minister had to run the water for his bath longer than the rest of us. That doesn't seem right, does...
High in the Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...