Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Square Pegs. Before 1940, no matter how well prepared a handicapped worker was, he had a poor chance of a job. Employers not only had their pick of the labor supply-in many cases workmen's compensation laws made such employment risky. For example, if a worker already blind in one eye lost the sight of the other in a factory accident, the company might have to pay a great deal for total disability...
...fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother or hinder...
...fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...jobs); 2) restoration of competition to the "fullest possible extent"; 3) a solution for the special problems of small businesses which have found it "too tough to be born, even tougher to stay alive"; 4) recognition that "those who persist in thinking as isolationists are headed down a blind alley...
...showed he had a mind of his own by turning Catholic to marry, is now a lieutenant in the Navy. Benson Ford, 23, alone of the grandchildren, has his grandfather's keen blue eyes and much of his tremendous energy. Rejected in the draft (he is almost blind in one eye) he got special War Department permission to enlist, is now in officers' training school. Both he and Henry II are directors in the company. The youngest son, William Clay Ford, just 18, is a Naval air cadet...