Word: cobblers
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...before. Others-stenographers, schoolteachers, movie starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...
...Cobbler Harry Jake DeVoogd, 26, of Boone, Iowa is an earnest young man with a broad grin and a deformed foot. His draft classification was 4-F and the Army refused him when he volunteered...
...draft board finally gave in, let him see Lieut. Colonel Robert Fulton, a top State draft official who got him into the Army-as a cobbler. (G.I. shoes are usually tapped twice before being discarded...
...more than that. A typical exchange has a bar serving low alcoholic beer (it may not be intoxicating), juke boxes, a shooting range, a soda fountain where a soldier can buy a lunch topped off by a triple-dip ice-cream soda. Usually there are also a barbershop, cobbler's shop, a tailor to make alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range of the $150 the Army gives him for his first outfit. Civilian...
Papa Joe tried to make an engineer of Jacob, but Jacob was a lazy fellow. He would not study at technical school. Papa Joe is said to have said, "If you do not want to be an engineer, be a cobbler"-and packed Jacob off to an obscure corner of Georgia, where Papa Joe's own papa had been a cobbler...