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Besides the heavy wind, Harry Truman's vacation preserve was invaded by another rude noise: a crew of workmen showed up to install a teletypewriter to handle in triplicate all the messages demanding presidential veto-or signature-for the highly volatile Kerr gas bill (see BUSINESS). Most ringing of all was a round robin from mayors of 18 principal U.S. cities urging a veto in the name of their millions of gas consumers. Harry Truman, originally reported ready to sign the bill, delayed his decision until he returned to Washington...
...miles of underground pipe and invested $9.7 million to turn a plot of arid land into a production line of agriculture (TIME, March 11, 1946). Di Giorgio wages had always been as good as any in the valley (currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were made out of old refrigerator cars), but they were clean, whitewashed and handy to running hot & cold water. He had installed plain but serviceable concrete swimming pools, had contributed land...
...Communists were waiting. Students and workmen, carrying the gold-starred flag of Ho Chi Minh's Moscow-backed guerrillas, marched on the harbor crying: "Down with American aid!" Before they reached the docks, the marchers were turned back by truncheon-swinging native police. Then the march turned into what the Communists wanted-a well-planned, carefully supervised riot...
...years, beneath the towering immensity of St. Peter's basilica in Rome, the Vatican's hereditary corps of workmen, the Sampietrini, have been painstakingly excavating a city of the dead. First discovered during the preparation of a tomb for Pope Pius XI in February 1939, this labyrinth of ancient Roman and early Christian sepulchres has been unearthed, often with bare hands, from the soil with which it was filled by Constantine before he built the first St. Peter's (begun...
Besides its many telescopes, the station also has one of the few seismographs in this area. Its building is of red brick like all the others, but the foundation lies 13 feet in the solid bed rock ledge below the station. To avoid the slightest crack or deformation, workmen dug the foundation by hand, and poured all the concrete at one time. In the above-ground rooms, students and professors watch several machines which have needles drawing red lines on continuous rolls of graphed paper. These machines report each variation, no matter how slight, in the seismograph below ground. Visitors...