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...answer has turned out since to be middle-of-the-road Republican. An authority on labor law, he has written carefully worded texts on the subject, including a 1,593-page, $40 two-volume treatise on workmen's compensation, which he weighed in on the bathroom scales...
...locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual, in a hut by a gangplank. But in the morning, workmen found that some 30 of the Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring was cut on the frigate Loch Lomond, undergoing repairs at Bristol...
...almost half the plant's $160 million cost. It was jammed with U.S. equipment. Several hundred Italian engineers, technicians and workmen had been sent to the U.S. for the latest training. Cornigliano, government-owned, was a show spot of Italo-American cooperation...
...workmen overhauling the town sewer solved part of the problem by inadvertently digging up Cesare. The disinterred Borgia bones were shrouded in a casket of silver and oak and placed in the town hall, while the ancient debate raged with new fury. Time passed; an old priest died, and a younger priest took' over; an old mayor died, and a younger mayor took his office; both agreed that it was time to end the ancient rift and to give Cesare a decent burial...
Last week, thanks to the enterprise of two bustling Ohio businessmen, the monastery was finally put together on U.S. soil. In North Miami Beach, Fla., workmen fitted the last of the 35,000 stones in place, and the two businessmen, E. Raymond Moss and William S. Edgemon of Cincinnati, got ready to open the monastery to sightseers. Moss and Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking...