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Hoover's fingerprints on the cookie jar turned up during a probe into charges of corruption in the FBI's purchases of equipment. Following leads supplied by low-level FBI employees-including carpenters and other blue-collar workmen-investigators soon found evidence that Hoover and some of his closest aides had misused two FBI accounts...
...were made in the Colonies. American ironmakers, centered in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, have also proved that they are as good as any in the world. Already, America produces one-seventh of the world's crude iron (30,000 tons last year). The ironmakers, like other American workmen, get wages two and three times as high as those in Europe...
After three years of administrative hassles, labor troubles and ballooning costs, construction of the sprawling facilities for the games of the XXI Olympiad in Canada neared completion last week. The sun came out over Montreal following two weeks of cold and damp weather, allowing workmen to lay down the red tartan artificial surface in the stadium's eight-lane track. That took care of the last major project, though many odds and ends remain to be tied up before the lighting of the Olympic torch opens the 16 days of games on July...
According to figures released by the AFL-CIO last year, Alabama has some of the worst workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance laws in the country. It was one of only five states limiting the time a worker injured on the job could take to obtain medical treatment and one of only seven states to limit the amount of money spent for such treatment...
...Commissioners announced that whoever would fill in the Back Bay would be given four city blocks of the new land, 260,000 square feet in all. A Vermonter, Norman C. Munson, contracted for the job. Work began in 1859. Using two recent innovations, the railroad and the steam shovel, workmen hauled gravel from Needham, nine miles distant, and deposited it in the Back Bay, finishing the task two decades later...