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‘Handled garbage with bare hands’

... ‘Handled garbage with bare hands’ Two days after he started work as a dustman, John Hanlon gave the job up because he was expected to pick up “slimy, stinking garbage” with his bare hands. “I've never been so degraded in all my life,” said 36-year-old ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1967
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Beirut People Asked to Help in 'Clean-up 9 CLEAN-UP month is being planned for Beirut `a and its 400,000 people

... floods and athe lot stree of ts garbage. rubble from buildings under construction and soil are swept by floods into the main streets. Much of the resulting mess pi s the fault of the people who habitually throw their garbage into the street instead of taking ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1963
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 737 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Heads in the Sand

... THE dustbins of Warsaw are a gold mine to garbage scavengers. The rag, bottle and bone men, known in Warsaw as smiecierze, are a group of full-time professionals. Operating early in the morning and picking their way through thousands of grimy dustbins ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1960
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“PACKEDITIN”

... expected to pick up with my hands that I decided, there and then, to pack the job in. There were piles of maggoty filthmouldy bread, bad fish and rotten pieces of chickenjust thrown on the floor. “1 was expected to scoop up all this garbage with my bare ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1967
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Cockroaches

... Cockroaches They ain't picked up the garbage in a week. - a tenant said. Cockroaches scuttled round the edge of puddles on bathroom floors. Broken bottles and yellowed cigarette butts littered the sagging stairs in unlit hallways. The building was one ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 1961
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 184 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

GERMANY'S NEW ARMY `ON TRIAL'

... specialities were forcing recruits to do pushups until they collapsed, making them crawl on their elbows through mud and garbage, and requiring them to empty and repack their lockers throughout the night sn that they failed to get proper rest. Other recruit ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WHITE BLACK

... seat of the white station waggon and I climbed into the back. Big Daddy. Is not big, nor Is he. so far as I know, a daddy. He picked up the name because he Ls small and because he is known to give advice on any subject you might care to mention. It will probably ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 341 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Canada's Indians Help to Solve Own Health Problems A SIMPLE idea offered by a former woman schoolteacher` A is ..

... the country. Attractive kiss .11:thel Martens. now an instructor for the Federal Health Department. suggested that a hand-picked group of trained Indians could accomplish what the white man had failed to do for many decades. The Indians resent people ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1963
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 413 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE GARDEN LITTER

... special gutter. With malice in my pleasure an incident that heart, and venom in my belly, occurred years ago when I was I picked it tip, and overtook the running my Six Hills Nursery litter-lout. at Stevenage. The nursery Excuse me, I said, I think ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 455 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

`I was swept I,oooft down a mountainside'

... once or twice when I was head down I was conscious all the time. The next thing I knew was I sitting in the snow. He then picked himself up and took shelter below a rock face. I was afraid another avalanche would come. he said. Faint shouts Cpl. Mclver ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 494 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Farm workers

... electric and home doors and telephone heater. Outside, there are mud- calls to his secretary, yielded the puddles and open garbage. answer that Rice had gone some- Still. Mrs. Contreras and about where. 120 other migrants want to stay at Food for the ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1969
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 705 | Page: 17 | Tags: none