RELIEF: Occupational Hazard

To Ellis Colvin. 46. WTA client on duty in a gravel pit at Sycamore, Ill., last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation.

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