Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real estate prices will go up, no question about that," adds Bob Dennis, the town Republican Party chairman. This is bad news for many residents whose modest incomes do not match the town's tony image. Says Mike Marceau, a lobster wholesaler: "George Bush does nothing for commercial fishermen. Workingmen can't afford to buy a house here. I don't make enough money to buy property in this town, and I was born here...
...first publicly proposed that a holiday be set aside to give special honor to the "industrial spirit" of American workers. McGuire thought that the day should be halfway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving, so that it could be celebrated in pleasant weather. Thus on Sept. 5, 1882, 10,000 workingmen risked dismissal from their jobs by marching to Union Square in Manhattan. According to a contemporary account in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, "Their orderly appearance and sobriety of manner won hearty applause from the spectators who lined the sidewalks...
...products really do not differ from one another all that much in taste or ingredients. Most breweries focus mainly on the same group of customers, that 20% of American beer drinkers who consume eight out of every ten cans sold. These prime customers are both white-and blue-collar workingmen between the ages of 21 and 40, many of whom drink several cans a day, the prototypical Joe Six-Pack...
...celebrate him as a democratic hero, come out of the West to fight the moneyed Eastern "interests." Arthur Schlesinger Jr. carried the celebration still further in his classic The Age of Jackson, finding under his leadership an almost New Deal-like coalescence of West and South and Eastern workingmen...
...correspondent, Richard Valeriani, usually interviews a politician in that hour, for example; Good Morning's Jack Anderson rakes the muck at 7:10; and Morning's business correspondent, Ray Brady, discusses the impact of high interest rates on the housing industry at 7:45. By 8, the workingmen and -women have presumably left-along with Morning-and NBC and ABC turn their attention to housewives...