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...Cherchez les femmes, hire women," is Washington's advice to armament manufacturers facing a labor shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Woman Behind the Man | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...civilians it takes to keep a modern fighting man in the field. His story is just the kind of propaganda the U.S. would like to have Hollywood make more of. Adult, informative and entertaining, it klieg-lights the new warfare at a most important spot: the armament production line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Most important, in WPB's second week, was a step which went almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: $l-a-Year Men Still Worth It | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Donald, at that, is fit to be tied. But the radio goes to work on him. "Taxes to beat the Axis!" it chants. When the Duck realizes what armament his money will buy, he can't wait for Tax Day. His pen, blotter, inkwell, account book go to work on his short-form income-tax blank (for incomes under $3,000). Donald finds he owes a $13 tax. He scurries all the way to Washington to get it in on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Armament--Training is extended to civilians, former Cadets now in civil life and to Cadets currently undergoing instruction, and preferably to men who have had schooling in engineering or science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trained College Men Still Needed by Army Air Corps | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

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