All 32 Uses of
foreman
in
Atlas Shrugged
- And most of the foremen, too.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The furnace foreman lay knocked unconscious, the white flow spurted, slowly tearing the hole wider, and men were struggling with sand, hose and fire clay to stop the glowing streaks that spread in a heavy, gliding motion, eating everything on their way into jets of acrid smoke.†
Chpt 2.3
- I'll start you as furnace foreman any time.†
Chpt 2.3
- In a moment, he said, "Mr. Rearden ....I think I would give the rest of my life for one year as your furnace foreman.†
Chpt 2.3
- he could not help it if some of the superintendents and foremen had quit him without reason, men who had been with the company for ten to twenty years;†
Chpt 2.5
- The first man to quit at Rearden Steel was Tom Colby, rolling mill foreman, head of the Rearden Steel Workers Union.†
Chpt 2.6
- "What are we going to do?" cried Dave Mitchum, rushing, half-dressed and groggy with sleep, into his office, where the chief dispatcher, the trainmaster and the road foreman of engines were waiting for him.†
Chpt 2.7
- We don't," said the road foreman.†
Chpt 2.7
- Miss Taggart didn't," said the road foreman.†
Chpt 2.7
- "What was that talk you had with Dick Horton before he quit?" the road foreman asked too innocently, as if the subject were irrelevant.†
Chpt 2.7
- I thought I'd just mention it," the road foreman answered innocently.†
Chpt 2.7
- The trainmaster and the road foreman were there, but they pretended that they were not waiting.†
Chpt 2.7
- Dave Mitchum sat down at his secretary's typewriter and, by means of two fingers, carefully typed out an order to the trainmaster and another to the road foreman.†
Chpt 2.7
- The first instructed the trainmaster to summon a locomotive crew at once, for a purpose described only as "an emergency"; the second instructed the road foreman to "send the best engine available to Winston, to stand by for emergency assistance."†
Chpt 2.7
- After a while, he saw the figure of the road foreman walking across the yards toward the roundhouse.†
Chpt 2.7
- The road foreman walked across the yards, looking down at the ground.†
Chpt 2.7
- The trainmaster and the road foreman stood in the open doorway.†
Chpt 2.7
- But the half-hour went by in silence, and whet there were only three minutes left, the boy felt a terror he could not explain, except that he did not want to send that order, He turned to the trainmaster and the road foreman, asking hesitantly, "Mr. Mitchum gave me an order before he left, but I wonder whether I ought to send it, because I ....I don't think it's right.†
Chpt 2.7
- The road foreman snapped, "Do just as Mr. Mitchum told you.†
Chpt 2.7
- Not the same job, but the same place, I mean-I got to be shop foreman.†
Chpt 2.10
- We lost our best engineers, superintendents, foremen and highest skilled workers.†
Chpt 2.10
- A sheaf of sparks went up in the depth of the fog-and she saw the broad back of a foreman whose arm made the sweeping gesture of a signal, directing some invisible task.†
Chpt 3.1
- "We fear an outbreak of violence," the newspapers kept repeating, On October 28, a group of the new workers at Rearden Steel attacked a foreman and knocked the tuyeres off a blast furnace.†
Chpt 3.6
- That was that new furnace foreman of ours.†
Chpt 3.6
- It was that furnace foreman-Frank Adams is his name-who organized our defense, ran the whole battle, and stood on a roof, picking off the scum that came too close to the gate.†
Chpt 3.6
- "I was your furnace foreman," said Francisco, grinning.†
Chpt 3.6
- On the morning of the day when you were reading my farewell message over the roofs of New York, I was reporting here for my first shift as your furnace foreman.†
Chpt 3.6
- On the morning of November 29, the workers of a shoe factory in Massachusetts were astonished, on entering their workshop, to find that the foreman was late.†
Chpt 3.8
- But they went to their usual posts and went on with their habitual routine, pulling levers, pressing buttons, feeding leather into automatic cutters, piling boxes on a moving belt, wondering, as the hours went by, why they did not catch sight of the foreman, or the superintendent, or the general manager, or the company president.†
Chpt 3.8
- Rewards and honors were offered to applicants for managerial jobs —then to foremen-then to skilled mechanics-then to any man who would make an effort to deserve a promotion in rank: wage raises, bonuses, tax exemptions and a medal devised by Wesley Mouch, to be known as "The Order of Public Benefactors."†
Chpt 3.8
- When the workers of a factory beat up their foreman and wrecked the machinery in a fit of despair— no action could be taken against them.†
Chpt 3.8
- "Was everyone present?" she had asked the foreman.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
a worker who supervises and directs other workers -- especially in places like factories, workshops, or construction sites
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury