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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

The glamour replaced by the garbage can

... The glamour replaced by the garbage can GEORGE M. COHAN wrote a song called “ Give My Regards to Broadway.” Today he would send his condolences The worlds most glamorous thoroughfare, running through Manhattan island, has become a hardened artery. Someone ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

SENTINEL Tuesday October 15th 1968 in rQATS m Dry Cleaning Fire your garbage out into space 63 Church Street ..

... throwaway gathers pace— so the mountain of garbage ' produce and ' does the problem which fast reaching crisis proportions: what are we going to with it all? By 1980 if we haven't been buried by the garbage we produce experts predict we'll be ' creating ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1968
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2182 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

' lEVENiNGSENTINEL February 17th i t r -?' : If all clothes were soon see bow much dirt they picked

... ' lEVENiNGSENTINEL February 17th i t r -?' : If all clothes were soon see bow much dirt they picked up it's hidden' dirt that does the damagewearihg away the fibres shortening life of your clothes Get the damaging dirt out regular dry cleaning V7 i ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1966
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1937 | Page: 8 | 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

RADIO 4 Home Service (276 metres)

... Weather. 9.0, News. 95, Chapel In The Valley: hymns and music. 9.30, The Archers. 10.30, Morning Secvice from _ Coventry. 11.15, Pick of the Week. 12.10 pm., Sunday Listening Post: correspondence. 1225, I'm Sorry You've Heard This Before: or I'm Sorry, I'l ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1969
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRAGEDY IN A TURBAN

... on safari how near he was to nature in the raw even as he bathed in the sunken bath of his £7 a night room. I picked up the thread by picking up a middle-aged Asian near the Stanley Hotel, an Ismaelite Asian owing allegiance to the Aga Khan, and a grocer ...

Published: Monday 11 March 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 4 | Tags: none