legman

During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that stock-piles enough iron ore to last through the winter. The leg man on a Hulett iron-ore unloader must possess a special blend of brawn, brains and a "go for broke" attitude. He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket.

https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/136/mode/1up page 136 This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers … Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. … https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/140/mode/1up page 140 City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.