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This great workshop, formerly used for railway work, now employs some 1,300 women, with a small staff of skilled men. The women work forty-five hours a week in eight-hour shifts the men fifty-three hours on twelve-hour shifts. There is no difficulty whatever in obtaining a full supply of women's labour indeed, the factory has now a waiting-list of 500.
It was a long twelve-hour night; for under the "Line" and they were less than three degrees from it the days and nights are equal. But throughout all its hours, the wind continued to blow steadily from the same quarter; and the spread tarpaulin, thick and strong, caught every puff of it acting admirably.
The regular hours through the week was a twelve-hour shift, and each man was obliged to shovel thirty-two tons of coke, wheel it from ten to twenty yards along the platform, and dump it into railway cars. On Sunday the shift was twenty-four hours long, and each one had to handle sixty-four tons of coke.
We'd better take our regular twelve-hour tricks, hadn't we, Mart? It's a wonder we got as far as this without striking another snag. I'll take the first trick at the board beat it to bed." "Not so fast, Dick," argued Crane, as Seaton turned toward the engine-room: "It's my turn." "Flip a nickel," suggested Seaton. "Heads I get it." Crane flipped a coin.
Bill took it for granted that he could sleep, then, while the negative was drying; but Luck was merciless; that Cattlemen's Convention was only two days off, counting that day which was already begun, and there was also a twelve-hour train trip, more or less, between his picture and El Paso.
Didn't her face really look like a clock dial rather roundish and often pale, and impassive. She would have got up to look, in the mirror, but the thought of the sight of her own face, that was like a twelve-hour clock-dial, filled her with such deep terror, that she hastened to think of something else. Oh, why wasn't somebody kind to her?
Bannon, who had risen and was reaching for his ulster, which he had thrown over the railing, looked around at him. "You and I'll have to make twelve-hour days of it, you know," he said. He knew, from his quick glance and the expression almost of relief that came over his face, that this was what Peterson had been waiting for.
Bannon, who had risen and was reaching for his ulster, which he had thrown over the railing, looked around at him. "You and I'll have to make twelve-hour days of it, you know," he said. He knew, from his quick glance and the expression almost of relief that came over his face, that this was what Peterson had been waiting for.
George accompanied him, and found employment as full fireman at a small working, whose little engine he undertook to manage in partnership with a mate, each of them tending the fire night and day by twelve-hour shifts.
I had spent most of the twelve-hour trip down somewhere in the depths of the ship, dealing out rations to the hundred men that I had brought with me from Plymouth. This sounds a comparatively simple process, but not a bit of it.
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