Word: workmen
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...conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part of the country, even more than most U. S. workmen, are used to going in debt for Christmas, measuring the disadvantages against the luxury of a few days home...
...orders to keep their 83 ways busy more than a year, even if all the ways are used without interruption. Last week, when representatives of the industry met in Washington with Defense Commission experts and labor men, it became clear that interruptions were occurring. The cause: shortage of skilled workmen...
Next great food crusader was Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the 1870s, following European methods, figured out the number of calories different occupational groups should consume. No vitamin faddist, Atwater urged U. S. workmen to fill their calory quotas with greater "energy-yielders"-meat, potatoes and bread-instead of watery stuff low in calories...
...Chairman Freeman drafted kinetic little Darryl Zanuck to boss production, Frank Capra to direct directors, Edward Arnold to handle actors, Sheridan Gibney to watch writers, Fox's Alfred Newman to superintend music. Under this imposing superstructure, whose services go free, the industry's younger, less expensive workmen will labor for pay in cooperation with the Army's Signal Corps to turn out the product...
...hour later, with an eye-searing flash, the detonator house of the Allentown plant blew up. showered splintered wood on the bodies of three workmen...