Word: apprenticeships
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...explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report submitted last spring has been accepted in principle...
...squabs and working in factories-he spent two years in the British Isles as secretary to a lecturer, returned at 21 convinced that his future lay not in a white collar but in overalls. At the Westinghouse Machine Co. plant in Pittsburgh he found what he wanted: two years apprenticeship as a machinist at 20? an hour. And in Detroit he found experience in half-a-dozen grimy shops...
Supply of skilled labor is another "critical problem" of the mobilization of industry for war, Colonel Rutherford said. Despite present widespread unemployment, there would still be shortages in many skilled crafts, and the government is considering giving encouragement and support to training and apprenticeship systems in industry...
...have given thanks that France, in this dark hour brought on by his generation's vindictiveness, was no longer led by doctrinaire democrats of the Blum type. At her head now was serious, square-skulled Edouard Daladier, up from schoolteacher and poilu to emerge, after years of bourgeois apprenticeship under stodgy Edouard Herriot, as a leader whose nationalism approaches that of Poincare or Clemenceau. "The Soldier's Premier" they now called Daladier. Ever since Munich he had been busy forging a Stop-Hitler ring around Naziland...
Called "Teacher" by her onetime pupils, Sculptor Putnam aimed to enlighten the layman and at the same time to provide a technical guide for students, especially girls, who seldom get a chance at apprenticeship in a sculptor's studio. By a happy omission of professional cant and a handsome use of good drawings and photographs, she puts across pleasantly much that a manual would desiccate...