Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only too small to accommodate today's traffic, but was sinking into the riverbed at a rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under way. And while people and cars still travel the ancient span, workmen have begun the three-year task of dismantling its 130,000 tons of granite-carefully numbering each stone so U.S. builders can solve the giant jigsaw puzzle and put it back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another $3,000,000 to transport...
Link with Education. Investigating 6,347 absences and deaths caused by heart disease, Hinkle and his colleagues found that workmen, foremen and clerical employees experienced more heart ailments and coronary deaths than managerial personnel at all age levels. In fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime...
...Frellick, 51, has amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune by becoming one of the nation's more venturesome developers of shopping centers (two in Denver, one each in Dallas, San Antonio, Amarillo, Texas, and Boulder, Colo.). Last week, in the Denver suburb of Englewood, more than 5,000 workmen labored in three shifts around the clock to finish his latest and largest creation, 75-acre, $50 million Englewood-Cinderella City, in time for its scheduled March 7 opening. On the other side of town, Perl-Mack Construction Co., Denver's largest builder of tract homes, was putting the final...
...safer. Then there's another bar called Frank the Gook's. In Frank the Gook's you can buy anything you want. Lined up with the bottles on the back part of Frank the Gook's bar are all sorts of things. Timex watches, kid gloves, candy bars, workmen's pants, parchesi boards, post of glue. And pasted on the mirror is a little poster "Buy now on our Xmas Lay-A-Way Plan. See Frank or Chester...
...troubled by continuing rumors that prisoners had been murdered and buried on the prison grounds. Last week Murton ordered digging started in a treeless pasture at Cummins. Led to the site, which contained between 15 and 25 unexplained earth depressions, by strapping, 59-year-old Inmate Reuben Johnson, the workmen uncovered the three skeletons...