Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often in the past, the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge ("The Gloomy Dean"), former Dean of St. Paul's, made an unpopular point. Said he of the Continent's bomb-shattered cathedrals: "What a plane does, striking blind in a few seconds, will be remembered against us for all time...
...signs to mean that the Red Army had already beaten the Germans. Joseph Stalin has seen too much of war: his country and his Red Army exist today only because they proved the power of defense on the long Russian line. If his young protege, Marshal Vasilevsky, had been blind enough to make that mistake, he could never have achieved the most rapid rise in the Red Army's recent history...
...Henry Ford had long made it a practice to hire the handicapped in proportion to their presence in the plants' communities. The late Edsel Ford wrote in the Saturday Evening Post last winter that 10% of the company's employes in Detroit are handicapped-4,390 blind or deaf, 7,262 otherwise disabled...
...same pay as other workers. R. A. Von Hake, vice president in charge of manufacturing, says they are "hard-hitting, dependable and capable. They seem determined to compete with or excel the physically normal workers and they put in extra effort." Two of Lockheed's blind workers proved inventive: Ted Bushnell, who runs a parts numbering machine, invented a foot pedal which upped the machine's production 50%. James Garfield devised an adjustment knob and a turn-on switch for his burring roll which have been adopted throughout the plant...
...William A. Sawyer, Eastman Kodak's medical director, points out that the hiring of the handicapped should be good training for employers who will provide work for returning injured fighting men. Already certain shortages of men with handicaps surprisingly have developed: Eastman Kodak could not find enough totally blind men to determine whether they were in general good material for dark room jobs...