Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With regard to your article on the new uniforms, in the Jan. 14 issue of TIME, I would like to add a few words...
While the pens of labor & management squiggled and flourished signatures to contracts affecting thousands of workers, the week's tiniest accord was signed in Chicago. Mrs. Ralph Bettman, a housewife, and Lillie Mae Add, her maid sat down to solve the labor problem in minuscule...
...Lillie Add, their contract (cancellable on a week's notice) provided $25 a week base pay, time and a half for all work over 60 hours, a furnished private room, nutritious diet, use of the telephone, sick leave, church time, uniforms, a week's vacation with pay. For Mrs. Bettman, it provided at least the promise of steady help...
That is where eniac shines. Its nimble electrons can add two numbers of ten digits in 1/5000th of a second. New data can be fed into it at any stage of the process. If necessary, it can "remember" numbers and hold them for future use. An elaborate system of controls makes eniac so flexible that its inventors have given up looking for problems it cannot handle. There is plenty of work ahead for eniac, its inventors say. In nearly every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required...
Will Rogers Jr., 35, set out to add to the U.S. scene a new kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...