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...invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping...
...machine operator to move a box which was blocking the aisle. Said the operator: "Hell no, move it yourself." The foreman had to get a maintenance man to move the box. While the box was being moved, the machine operator declaimed for 45 minutes on his "rights," Other workmen left their machines, gathered around to listen. The foreman could do nothing; he did not want the workers to have a new "grievance...
...Ford plants workmen complain about the food concessions. They say sandwiches are inedible, milk dirty, and say that Ford's tough, union-hating Harry Bennett, who controls the concessions, passes them out to his friends...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
Originally planned for construction on Soldiers Field, the building will occupy a space of 198 feet long and 110 wide on the west side of what remains of the tennis courts. Workmen are rushing excavation for the foundations even before the interior plans of the building are completed since engineers and architects are yet conferring about the final form of the blueprints...