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Another of our new writers (who speaks six languages and was educated in four countries) was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and special writer for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington before he came to TIME. And still another was with LIFE for five years, interviewed all the 1940 presidential candidates for TIME'S sister publication, worked on some of LIFE'S most famous feature stories, including those on the Windsors, Juan Trippe, Eugene Grace...
...behalf of the British army's estimated 2,000,000 men away from home, the War Office's welfare bureau urged wives and sweethearts to behave themselves. It asked Britain's 1,700,000 women factory workers not to write: "We dance with the men in our rest hour," suggested instead: "I should have enjoyed it so much more with you." It appealed to mothers and mothers-in-law not to gossip, decrying the excuse, "I think you ought to know. . . ." It bluntly explained: "We are not going to get men to fight with 100% heart...
...when Hitler's troops marched over the border. She was working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi tanks rumbled into Paris she lit out two jumps ahead, got through to London, and took a job on trial with TIME. Six weeks later Bureau Chief Walter Graebner called her "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London." And Graebner does not toss bouquets around...
...Last April the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that copper, lead and zinc smelting and refining workers averaged $35.18 a week while metal miners averaged $37.28. This compares with $40.22 for steel workers (before their recent wage boost), $45.94 for aircraft workers and $53.30 for shipbuilders...
...Excluding British India and conquered European nations. Included are 49 million Chinese. Figures complied by U.S. Census Bureau from latest official censuses with projections brought forward to July...