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...smooth the path to the Dean's office, workmen will be pounding away at the steps of University Hall with bush hammers for the next few days. The surface of the slippery steps, which has been the cause of a flying tumble for many is being chopped into little ridges...
...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
...destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every man, woman and child...
...abandoned plant of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., longtime maker of air-cooled automobiles. When Franklin closed down in 1934 it left not only a plant once valued at $3,000,000 but also, as Carrier Corp. observed in a letter to stockholders fortnight ago, an "excellent quality of workmen available in Syracuse in generous quantities." The plant was taken over by the city for taxes. When Syracuse heard that Willis Carrier was thinking of moving, it told him if he would move into the old Franklin plant it would make him a good price. When Mr. Carrier said...
...participate in any coercion or any threats of bodily harm or damage to any employe, the property of any employe or the company or in any violence or unlawful act to enforce the settlement of any differences that may arise between this company and me or my fellow workmen...