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...protection of employes the following plans shall be adopted by all of these companies: a) A workmen's compensation act . . . modeled after the best features of the laws which have been enacted by the several States, b) All employes . . . may, after two years of service . . . and before the expiration of five years of service, be covered by life and disability insurance." Cost of the policy would be shared equally by the employe and the company or companies for which he worked, even if he changed industries. The employer would not share the premium of a policy over...
...Appleton, gone but not forgotten--what was the scandal they were having up there . . . something about carpenters and plasterers, or was it about a memorial that the real argument had been? Anyway, it seemed that the workmen had walked out one morning. It was perfectly familiar down on Plympton street, too having heaps of saud, and workmen blocking traffic. Cagey system building the pagoda in between Russell and Westmorly, then tearing down Russell, cutting a big hole in the pagoda right off, so as to connect things...
...spite of its hundreds of workmen and laborers, Churchill still had no permanent residents last week beyond the trappers, the police, the Eskimos and the Hudson's Bay factor. This is by government order. The engineers who built Churchill harbor have made an ambitious town plan for Churchill. There are to be parks and playgrounds, wide streets, residential and business districts. Because of Churchill's subarctic winters most of the inhabitants will live in small apartment houses heated from a central station. Special arrangements for water supply and sewage disposal will have to be made. To prevent famine...
...14th Century. By the time Alfonso XIII got home, abdicated and got back to Paris, Artist Sert was well along with his next batch of murals. Designed for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, these paintings were to be seen in the Sert studio during July. Last week workmen were gluing the 20 canvases to the walls of the Waldorf-Astoria's swankiest dining room, the Sert Room which looks out on 50th Street and Park Avenue...
...Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring tackle and up would go the Akron about five feet clear of her metal supports, to hover for a few moments until another signal brought her down again...