Thousands of workers were laid off, and the wages of those remaining on the job were reduced, as were the prices paid to independent banana producers by the giant fruit companies.

Thousands of Saudis are employed year-round to oversee the Hajj and staff the hotels and shops that cater to pilgrims ; these workers in turn have increased the demand for housing and services.

Thousands of Salvadoran labourers were expelled from Honduras, including both temporary harvest workers and longer-term settlers.

Thousands of Chinese men arrived in California to work as laborers, recruited by industry as low wage workers.

Thousands of skilled and unskilled Thai workers are employed in Israel and many Thai students study in Israel.

Thousands of people looking for high-paying mining jobs streamed into Jeffrey City, and Western Nuclear designed and financed a company town for the workers and their families.

Thousands of people of non-Chechen ethnicity ( mostly Russians ) fled the Chechen Republic and Chechnya's industrial production began failing after Russian engineers and workers fled or were expelled.

Thousands of workers came to Alaska, attracted by the prospect of high-paying jobs at a time when most of the rest of the United States was undergoing a recession.

Thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make it a formidable task.

Thousands of government workers were summarily sacked after warnings.

Thousands of unemployed workers hopped on freight trains heading east intending to converge in Ottawa and press their demands on the government.

Thousands of Baltimore workers were forced to leave their jobs and unable to come back for several days until the city could assure that there was no further danger from either the fire or the water main flooding.

Thousands of striking workers marched through North London to Pentonville Prison.

Thousands of workers came to the area from all parts of Britain and with the new community came new shops, pubs, clubs, and many rows of terraced " colliery houses " for the mine workers and their families.

Thousands of workers were brought in to do lumbering and work on levees.

Thousands of larvae are located near the center with the queen, and workers are responsible for feeding them.

Thousands of international meetings were held in their support, including some 600 meetings amongst workers in the United States, organized by the Industrial Workers of the World and with Joe Hill as a leading participant.

Thousands of American replacement troops poured through the city before being deployed to combat operations.

Thousands of men poured into the county during this time in the hunt for silver.

Thousands more people poured into Nome during the spring of 1900 aboard steamships from the ports of Seattle and San Francisco.

Thousands poured through the wall into the western sectors of Berlin, and on November 12, East Germany began dismantling it.

Thousands of black refugees poured into St. Louis, where the Freedmen's Relief Society, the Ladies Union Aid Society, the Western Sanitary Commission, and the American Missionary Association ( AMA ) set up schools for their children.

Thousands of letters poured into the Justice Department supporting the company ; the Hartford brothers gave extensive interviews with Time which put them on the magazine's November 13, 1950 cover.

Thousands of buffalo ( `` bison '' they will never be to the man on the street ) grazing like a mobile brown throw-rug upon the rolling, dusty-green grassland.

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth.

Thousands, including journalists and curious spectators, showed up, unaware that what they were witnessing was a stunt involving a Lindbergh look-alike.

Who will plead for them if we are silent ?” Goodall has also said, “ Thousands of people who say they ' love ' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Thousands of Falun Gong followers wrote to Guangming Daily and to the CQRS to complain against the measures, claiming that they violated Hu Yaobang's 1982 ' Triple No ' directive.

Thousands of families from other places own a second home in the Alicante Province which they use for their vacation time.

Thousands of people joined the movement, as they felt that it represented a real solution to their demands such as a larger share of water for irrigation and return of Chandigarh to Punjab.

Thousands of Degar fled to Cambodia after the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army, fearing that the new government would launch reprisals against them because they had aided the U. S. Army.

Thousands of Degar fled to Cambodia after the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army, fearing that the new government would launch reprisals against them because they had aided the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

Thousands of men who have amassed fortunes in all sorts of enterprises in other states have gone to New York to live because they like the life of the city or because their distant enterprises require representation at the financial centre.

Thousands of children were removed from their parents and taken into care or fostered out because they were deemed to be ' at risk '.

Thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from the southern counties of Scotland migrated from farms and small holdings they had occupied to the new industrial centres of Glasgow, Edinburgh and northern England or abroad.

* Thousands of " Pennsylvania Dutch " ( German ) farmers move from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada between the 1780s and the 1830s ; they claimed a share of the United Empire Loyalists ' foundational myth, drawing on its themes of loyalty and sacrifice.

Thousands of homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, conscientious objectors, and dissidents were forced to conduct their compulsory military service in the 1960s at UMAP camps, where they were subject to political " reeducation ".

In the Pogues song " Thousands Are Sailing ", the ghost of an Irish immigrant laments, "... on a coffin ship I came / And I never even got so far that they could change my name.

Thousands of Kxoe were murdered in Angola after independence, as they had been used by the Portuguese as trackers, and the survivors fled to Zambia.

Thousands of children were enrolled in parochial schools, where they were taught by nuns and brothers.

Thousands of steles, surplus to the original requirements, and no longer associated with the person they were erected for or to, have been assembled in Xi ' an's Stele Forest Museum, which is a popular tourist attraction.

Thousands of consumer complaints were made to the Better Business Bureau about the company's business practices, especially the " autoship " program that repeatedly charged customers ' credit cards for refills even after they canceled their orders.