Word: canteeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shop Owner John Rosenthal, local chairman of the Committee on Public Safety (TIME, June 29), told him to prepare for survivors from a sea disaster. By 7 o'clock, housewives, schoolteachers, nurses, shopkeepers, artists, artists' wives, fishermen, with arm bands designating them as first-aiders, auxiliary police, canteen workers, air-raid wardens, were running along the streets to the wharf and the Report Center...
Soon Mrs. Louise Baumgartner and 25 canteen workers moved into the kitchen, began working on food supplies with the cooperation of the Red Cross. Seven "ambulances"-hardware trucks and station wagons-with a driver and four first-aiders each, were parked behind the post office-quietly, not to alarm the public. Just in case the public did get alarmed, 50 auxiliary police ringed the hotel to keep unauthorized people out. Coast Guardsmen formed a cordon around the wharf, detoured mainstreet traffic that might interfere with operations...
...drenched, shuddering, shaken men, some of whom dropped to their knees to pray (in Spanish) when they felt the wharf's solid planking underfoot. Blankets hastily pulled from village beds an hour before were wrapped around them. "Ambulances" carried them to the hotel, where they were welcomed by canteen workers with hot soup, and by 35 home nurses, a contingent of registered nurses, and four male air-raid wardens drafted as orderlies. There were dry clothes and warm beds in private rooms...
...finger dexterity than men (Westinghouse has known this all along, has used women in electrical assembly since the days of fancy aprons and high lace collars); 2) they are more immune to monotony than men, will keep at a tiresome job long after a man starts hanging around the canteen or water cooler; 3) they excel at inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton A. Woodworth, maker of engine parts, says it is easier to make a woman "quality conscious" than a man); 4) women workers are more docile than men workers...
Hollywood's version of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen (TIME, April 6) is a radio job called Your Blind Date. Two months old, it graduated last week from a Coast hookup to a half-hour on the national air (Blue, Mon., 9:30 p.m. E.W.T.). Pleasing to Army, Navy and Marines, Your Blind Date not only puts on a weekly show for a service audience (no civilians admitted) but afterward turns Studio B of Hollywood's Radio City into a dance floor, with a free juke box and a detachment of beautiful blondes...