section hand

As the time of factories had not yet come, the laborers worked in the fields or were section hands on the railroads.

Stafford's wife and daughters opened an eating house, mainly for the accommodation of the section hands.

A gasoline car - the type used by section hands - was chugging along at almost the same speed as the train.

For more detail on these methods and their use in specific processes see the section Hand Signals below.

He worked as a railroad section hand.

There had been many threats that the party of disorder would import section hands from the neighboring railway stations to down our side.

Those weren't section hands riding the pop car, though The Shadow learned it too late to stop them.

The sergeant of the headquarters section handed her a Koegelmann machine-carbine.

He worked most of his youth as a cowboy, then began working for the Santa Fe Railroad as a section hand.

He worked as a farmhand from age 7, then later as a railroad section hand, a farm tenant, and as a share-cropper.

Massinggale moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1887 and was employed for a short time as a section hand while he continued to study law.

In a weekly series of articles he wrote of his memories of the Mexican section hands in the 1920s and 30s.

Mr. Carroll, the son of a blacksmith, worked as a switchboard operator, bricklayer's helper and railroad section hand to put himself through college.

Years ago it was occupied by a railroad section gang--in the days when section hands were largely itinerant Mexicans.

Paiute men worked as section hands for the railroad, did intermittent labor on farms, and sometimes worked small plots on reservation land.

Many Koreans dispersed along the Pacific Coast as farm workers or as wage laborers in mining companies and as section hands on the railroads.

Mostly, Mexicans were accounted as 'floaters,' shifting jobs between meat packing plants, section hands on the railroads, and agricultural laborers..."

But she would appreciate that better than I, since she worships expertness of any kind and since she has probably been laid by every section hand on her railroad!"

The book is peopled with "braves in buckskin," "blue-turbaned voyageurs," "drawling steamboat men," "Negro fish vendors," "Irish section hands."

"Calf all of your unskilled laborers," she said to the assistant manager, "the section hands, trackwalkers, engine wipers, whoever's in the Terminal right now, and have them come here at once."

Thayer's early work experience included helper on a uranium drill rig, construction laborer, railroad section hand, janitor, restaurant dishwasher, insurance salesman, and seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park.

His father, Setsugo Hosokawa, who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1899 at the age of 15, worked as a migrant farm worker and a railroad section hand in Montana.

Baker worked as a sawmill assistant and as a railroad section hand until he had saved enough money to attend Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau, from which he earned a Bachelors degree in Pedagogy.

The first structures within the limits of the new town were two little half-sod and half-board dugouts which served as depot, freight house, and shelter for railroad section hands; this is one of the very few mentions of sod houses in McLean County.

Massena Jones (former postmaster of Vaughan and director of the now-closed museum there), said "When they found Jones, according to Uncle Will Madison (a section hand who helped remove Jones' body from the wreckage), he had a splinter of wood driven through his head.