Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment-though women with close relatives in the services are apt to be among the most regular workers there are. Boys take time off for hang overs, have lately taken to writing blatant cracks like "drunk too much" or "date with a blonde" on their why-were-you-absent slips. U.S. factory morale and discipline seems to be at a very low pitch...
...when outside causes will lay you off tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...
...biologists, have I heard such nonsense. Our business is not to kill animals. When, in order to increase the store of knowledge which may improve the lot of the animal Homosapiens, it is essential that we do so, any feeling of hate for these relatively defenseless creatures is totally absent from most, and I sincerely hope from all, of us. Rather, as perfectly obvious from shop talk in any group involving as many as two biologists, we entertain rather marked affection and often great respect for the animals it is necessary for us to destroy...
Messrs. Channing Dooley, formerly of Socony-Vacuum Oil, and Walter Dietz, formerly of Western Electric, are not Washington headliners. Charged with running the Training Within Industry program of the War Manpower Commission, their names have been conspicuously absent from all the discussion and argument of the manpower shortage. Nevertheless, Messrs. Dooley and Dietz have been doing...
...message to President Roosevelt was drafted by the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense of the Hemisphere (set up by the Rio conference in January). But it went unsigned by representatives of the two countries which have not yet broken diplomatically with the Axis. Chile's delegate was absent. Argentina's abstained from voting. However, Chile's President Juan Antonio Ríos sent a personal message to Franklin Roosevelt, promising increased production of vital materials and control of Nazi propaganda and espionage, praising the African operations as "guaranteeing the security of this hemisphere...