Word: workmen
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...Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
Bigger chunks and huge blocks of cement covered the ruins of an eight story building on the corner which had just collapsed?causing all the havoc, burying alive six score workmen...
...fire engine was the one man most needed to organize rescue work, the Chief Inspector of Police. But eager subordinates sprang to take his place. Within 30 minutes 2,000 police and volunteers were delving and tunneling into the ruins. Meanwhile frenzied wives and mothers of the buried workmen arrived screaming, and had to be fought off to a distance by a second hastily assembled corps of police and soldiers. Several women, disheveled, broke through police lines and rushed among the ruins, calling to their buried sons or husbands, clawing and tugging at huge, immobile blocks of cement...
Rescue work was continued as night fell. A few moments after midnight tolled there was heard an ominous crash. In another quarter of the city another building had collapsed. It too had been nearing completion, and since the workmen had all gone home to slumber no one was killed. Next morning experts again croaked, "faulty construction." Nervous, superstitious citizens waited for a third building to fall...
Presently Bat'a shoes began to move on endless belts past workmen, each of whom performed a single operation. If the belt hurried a little, why so did the workmen-and were paid according to the number of shoes they produced...