Word: workmen
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...Gdynia workmen are cutting steel for a replacement fleet of seven custom-designed carriers for the timber giant Weyerhaeuser, based in Federal Way, Wash. The 78-year-old yard beat out competing bids from Japan and South Korea for the contract, said to be worth some $250 million. Frank Mendizabal, a Weyerhaeuser spokesman, said the company asked U.S. shipyards, which he declined to name, to bid on the contract but received no response. Gdynia's bid offered the "best value" in terms of cost and willingness to collaborate on the new design. "There are not a lot of shipyards...
...hair dressing rooms of La-Flamme, 21 Dunster St., all details for the customer's comfort are provided for. Only skillful workmen. Razors honed...
...White House had been a struggle to raise. Funds ran out, materials and workmen ran thin. Scottish stone carvers had to be enticed to America. A whorehouse sprang up among the construction shacks, and federal commissioners wanted it torn down, only to drop the complaint when carpenters protested. President Washington made sure the White House was built, bolstering his determination with inspections of the site...
...southwest corner, the truth is we do not know today which is the cornerstone. White House staff members of our era tried radar, X rays and even some noted dowsers to find the treasure. The experts all chose different stones, and the Presidents have never let workmen cut into any of them. The mystery is likely to live on. Seale, ever the realist about the past, suspects that a bunch of rowdies may have come around that night and stolen it. They did things like that even back then...
...turn the world on with her smile. She can take a nothing day, yada yada yada. But when it comes to sprinting down a sidewalk, hurdling a rolled-up carpet carried by two workmen and flopping onto the pavement, Mary Tyler Moore would have been better off leaving the job to professionals. A stuntwoman was supposed to handle the scene, in which Moore's Mary Richards--now a 60-year-old widow--chases in high heels after a stray dog, but Moore decided to try the pratfall herself. "I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says...