Word: workmen
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...stood weeping in the rain, repeating desperately: "Jim will come out alive. He simply has to do that for me and his children." Many other tired women stood in numb silence. The Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co. had not seen fit to insure its men under Kentucky's workmen's compensation laws, and there would be no benefits for the widows...
...cavernous Willow Run plant last week, workmen swarmed around an auto chassis, lifted in the motor, fastened on the wheels and then, finally, bolted on a body. In this handmade fashion, the Frazer, the first car of the new automaking team of Joe Frazer and Henry Kaiser, was turned out. Wider than most cars, and lower, it was Graham-Paige's contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward...
Stop the Line. In many ways it was. Next day at 11 o'clock, at the great Cadillac plant on Detroit's Clark Street, workmen laid down their tools. They had turned out 35 finished cars that morning, but at the appointed hour they picked up their coats and hats and walked...
...church, close-mouthed about its in come, is the main support of the Francis can Order's biggest province in the U.S., Last week, workmen were putting the finishing touches to $100,000 worth of improvements on St. Francis' monastery next door. The improvements include a chapel for the 250 to 300 marriage ceremonies performed each year and a confessional for the deaf, with hearing equipment...
Muscovite workmen were busy last week behind the Kremlin's walls. Foreign correspondents, on a rare sightseeing trip, saw signs of a thoroughgoing restoration project.* The nine gilded, onion-shaped domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, stripped of their camouflage paint, shone in the October sun. At the nearby Cathedral of the Archangel (where the Tsars lie buried), and all over the Kremlin's 90 acres, roofs were being fixed and walls painted...