Word: buttons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Button Sorters...
...solution to the problem of the thousands of people crying "Give us jobs to do" (TIME, March 9), the "Button Sorters" job might be put back into operation...
Quiz. In Albany, N.Y., the Rev. Button S. Peterson opened a session of the State Assembly by reading a seven-line invocation, later asked more than a dozen members if they knew what it was. None of them recognized it: the last verse of America...
Many of the world's smartest manufacturing brains are concentrated in Detroit; so is much of the world's smartest machinery. Many a machine is no good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride...
...reporters and editors-Editor & Publisher obligingly published the figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army was concerned, lost...