flagmen

• “They would give guidance to local officials, who have always had, and will continue to have the right to decide when to use police details and when other measures such as flagmen or even orange cones would be sufficient.”

  Blue Mass. Group - Front Page

• “In Vancouver, where construction and road maintenance proliferates in the run-up to the Olympics, work crews are allowed to use their own "flagmen" to direct traffic with "Slow" and”

  Thestar.com - Home Page

• “The flagmen on Ecuador's banana plantations have one of the worst jobs.”

  Craig and Marc Kielburger: This Injustice Is Bananas

• “He moved to fulfill a major campaign promise this month by mandating that flagmen, not policemen, direct traffic; the police unions will fight him on this decision, which deprives their members easy overtime pay.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Axelrod Method

• “Massachusetts is the only state that mandates that cops, not flagmen, direct traffic at road-construction sites.”

  The Wall Street Journal: President Obama: The Preview?

• “Railroads had to employ flagmen at railroad crossings; for failure to comply, money penalties were prescribed.25 About a dozen more distinct items of behavior became criminal, in 1891, and other, older crime laws were amended.”

  Simon & Schuster: A History of American Law

• “Monroe was made the exchange point for crews, which meant that your conductors and flagmen and engineers and firemen and brakemen and their families lived in Monroe, and these were the highest-salaried people in”

  Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “A system for measuring the seed distribution on the site is worked out in advance and, if possible, flagmen are positioned to guide the aircraft so as to avoid overlapping runs (techniques newly developed in the United States include the use of aluminum flags (dropped from the plane) as well as electronic field triangulation, both of which guide the planes without using flagmen).”

  1 Introduction

• “They wasn't no flagmen or conductors or nothing like that.”

  Oral History Interview with Hill Baker, June 1977. Interview H-0109-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “A convoy of trucks was coming from the other side and he could see more flagmen and laborers and bulldozers down the road.”

  The Japanese Corpse

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