Word: workman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Meissen (pop. 48,000) has been famed for fine china. Little damaged during World War II, it went on, under the Russian thumb, producing traditional luxury ware, even though a single Meissen cup cost upwards of 50 East marks-more than the average weekly salary of an East German workman. Last week Meissen was busy reorienting itself to the new order in East Germany. In place of its world-famed baroque "Red Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic loss ... to the sound, lively and folk-based realism of our time...
...nice bridge, probably-all $732,000 of it. But how is anyone going to park with people whirling around him in a rotary? Mr. Langsworth of Muuroo-Langsworth, the contractors for Eliot Bridge, conceded that it "might disturb one a bit." A workman was equally callous: "They'll just have to find another place further down...
LIFE OF AN AMERICAN WORKMAN (219 pp.)-Walter P. Chrysler, with Boyden Sparkes-Dodd, Mead...
...Quite Horatio. Chrysler died in 1940, but not before Satevepost Writer Boyden Sparkes had taken down his story. Life of an American Workman is one of those personal-success books that has Made in U.S.A. stamped all over it. It has the casual, conversational tone of a front-porch chat and the fascination that clings to every true story about the boy who reached...
...workman repairing the circulation dock told the incarcerates that the man with the keys had "gone away." He added, with a grin, that he wouldn't be back for "an hour and a half...