Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Four carloads of police dismantled the barricades early yesterday morning. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci visited the area shortly afterward, and workmen began installing the street's first "Children-Drive Slow" signs by noon...
...chain shackled to a stake. The stake is dropped into the hole and turned horizontally. Then the plant roots are arranged around the stake, the hole is filled and the entire gadget concealed with earth. The Parks Department claims it has foiled at least one would-be thief. Workmen in Central Park recently found a plant with all the dirt dug out around its roots, but still firmly anchored to its stake...
Splintery Stairs. SoHo's smaller lofts (2,100 to 2,500 sq. ft.) are just right for artists doing large-scale works in new industrial materials. And the continuing presence of workmen and small manufacturers encourages a rewarding combination of art and industry. Says Jewelry Maker Gale Picard: "The machinist across the street comes over to give us advice. The neighborhood carpenters and mechanics are all very helpful in working out artistic problems...
...University of Denver, National Guardsmen moved onto the campus while workmen demolished a shantytown built by anti-war protestors...
...West Virginia law wasn't ideal. It did, for the first time, make black lung compensable, but it left administration in the hands of a state Workmen's Compensation Board so hopelessly bureaucratic and inadequate that it has two completely separate medical boards, no central medical administrative facility, no clinical staff and no research program. The bill could have been much better-but to improve it takes massive effort in a state dominated by giant coal and chemical companies allied with "medieval-minded, industry-oriented state senators and their medical counterparts." as Black Lung Association president Charles Brooks puts...