Word: workmen
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...last week workmen were yanking the wire trees and make-believe houses off many camouflaged war plants. The makeup job had been costly: full-blown protective concealment of 37 vital plants had cost $22,319,274. Other money went for simpler tone-down work or "disruptive painting" at smaller plants, antiaircraft posts, airfields. In the heat of its enthusiasm for plenty of camouflage, the Corps of Engineers gave out contracts for disguising fields hundreds of miles inland...
...years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured servants...
...ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye. The redecoration was finished, without mishap, by 30 workmen standing on the largest suspended scaffold ever built...
...problem of reconversion was posed by a strike of 45 workmen belonging to Detroit's Building Trades Council (A.F. of L.). They struck because Chrysler Corp. could not assure them that all machinery in the new building would be A.F. of L.-installed. The United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) had alreadypublicly insisted on doing all the coveted installation (tying in powerand cooling lines, etc.)-in other words, the auto workers should getthe jobs as well as the layoffs occasioned by reconversion...
...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...