Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellis Colvin. 46. WTA client on duty in a gravel pit at Sycamore, Ill., last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation...
...hours of manual labor. Father Malone returned the check, but this time the story got into the newspapers. Suspended under suspicion of collusion were two WPA timekeepers, Gilbert Colley and Max Whoolery, and Richard Malone actually got a job posing for photographers, sitting down, with pick & shovel beside...
With members of the Chamber of Deputies on holiday last week, brawny French workers lit into the legislature's garden with pick & shovel, began excavating a huge crater. In it will be constructed a bombproof shelter in which, during future air raids, the world's first subterranean parliament may some...
...surgery. Paying sick calls was no cinch. Horse & buggy covered 20 miles in half a day, while "Pop" shot rabbits and fence posts, read, slept, fought blizzards and dogs that were as bad as the roads. As standard instruments he carried a six-shooter for the dogs, wire cutter, shovel and hammer to cut through fences when he got lost in blizzards. No farmer ever complained...
...bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...