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...avoid the state's exorbitant whiskey tax, moonshine is occasionally poisoned by the lead piping often used in the stills, but it is cheap. It is the favorite drink of the unemployed or of those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment to be supplying whiskey houses in the area...
...control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother to get out of their cabs. After the style of U.S. aircraft carriers, Henrion keeps track of his men by dressing foremen in beige overalls, wine handlers in red, mechanics in brown, bottling-machine attendants in blue, and forklift truckers in yellow...
...boost its force by 50%, to 60,000 workers by this fall, as projects pass the $1 billion mark. Though not a great deal can be done immediately about wages, the workers' councils can accomplish much to ease misunderstandings between the Vietnamese and their harddriving, highly motivated U.S. foremen, and settle other squabbles. RMK-BRJ hopes to have elections as soon as possible at its dozen biggest sites...
...message got across. Under the watchful eyes of local party foremen, the only race on election day was among the voters at the polls. Scarcely even looking at the ballots handed them, they rushed them to the boxes as fast as possible for all to see that they could not possibly have had time to be unpatriotic. The result: only two candidates out of nearly a quarter of a million were defeated, and the voters left the regime with about 40,000 more candidates than there were jobs...
...editor of the Sunday feature page-and Managing Editor Ralph L. Holsinger. The Proudfoot ax also cut swaths through the classified-ad department (15 heads) and the circulation department (five). Only in the composing room did the efficiency experts fall down on the job-only because the shop foremen flatly refused to let them...