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Sidetrack. In Philadelphia, James Ware, who took a summer job in 1894 as a railroad waiter, to help pay his way through medical school, got a 50-year service button from the railroad...
...Pressing a Button. From the German press came a first detailed story by a front reporter of the robot bombs' launchings. The German nicknames for Vi: "Paula" and "Pauline." Soldiers often wrote messages on the missiles: "Revenge for Frankfort...
...reporter spelled out the launchings in heartfelt detail: "An NCO presses a black button. The earth trembles. A hellish sound. . . In a fraction of a second the gigantic explosive missile shoots off and glides as quick as lightning over the launching track . . . with a gruesome roaring and thundering...
...Button, Button. In Miles City, Mont., Frank Smith got out of his car, stopped, picked up a button. He soon let go-attached to it were seven rattles and a rattlesnake...
...strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...