Word: workmen
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...Road workmen set off unusually potent charges of dynamite near the dam on the day before the break. A few Los Angeles residents even hinted that the dam was intentionally destroyed by country bumpkins to spite the city folk. Officials pronounced this speculation ridiculous...
...Industrial relations. Smith has made a large part of his reputation on his championship of such measures as minimum-wage laws, workmen's compensation, maternity insurance, and the eight-hour day. It is quite certain that if he were elected the Democratic party, which has acquired many a sudden interest in its time, would be off on a new adventure...
...Pensendorfer factory at West Berlin, N. J., the workmen need have no names. They have only three rules to obey: keep straight, shun booze, work hard. Ex-convicts skilled at woodworking are welcome at West Berlin...
...cause of the bad conditions according to the report of the survey is the great amount of dust created in cutting down the granite blocks. The workmen inhale the granite dust, and within a few years the quantity of this foreign material in the lungs is sufficient to cause a complication known as silicosis, which predisposes the afflicted individuals to tuberculosis...
...know," he said, settling himself in his chair, "I live in Greenwich. Connecticut. Well, about two years ago, my own house burnt down, and I had it rebuilt. I moved in with my family though before the workmen were through and well, the play is just a dramatization of my summer vacation. And then, lots of the other things, the Junior Dance and so forth that I mention in the play they actually do have them in Greenwich...