Word: yardmen
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...been for years. He also hates the Brotherhood-built barriers between road and yard work. Present rules say that if a road crew does ten minutes' yard work, all can claim a full day's yardman's pay besides their road pay. Worse still, the regular yardmen can claim a day's pay on the grounds that they were gypped...
Fearing the wrong kind of deeds, Scotland Yard strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...
...Union members must never lay hands to other men's jobs. Thus when a Rock Island train crew did its own switching at Haileyville, Okla., because the yardmen were off duty, the road's receiver had to pay 1) a full day's overtime to the road crew for each train switched, 2) a full day's pay to yardmen although they were not there...
...jewels seldom travel, but King George and Queen Elizabeth, responding to the costly hospitality of their French hosts, brought along $7,500,000 in jewels from the Tower of London, including the 106-carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French troops...
...past by this very system the Freshmen have been admitted to the Houses for a few weeks before choosing their future homes, to facilitate the selection. This period of privilege is not long enough for making an intelligent choice; it certainly does not satisfy the desires of the Yardmen and the Rivermen to enjoy each other's company. Therefore it must be granted for all time...