Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion, among other matters, was an industry-wide wage boost, to include all the nation's 27,000 unionized makers of tableware, lighting fixtures, tubing, lenses-from the semiskilled up to the offhand caster plate workers at the tiptop of the craft's rigid craft system. Not included in their ranks: workers in bottles, jars, flat glass...
...capitalism along with its astringent drama does not come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...
...reconnaissance and bombing powers of the Pacific Fleet on the long reach south from Pearl Harbor to the Navy's long-neglected station on Samoa. There, in the storied harbor of Pago Pago, workmen are also busy building a first-rate aircraft station, a secondary station for water craft to bridge the long reach between Pearl Harbor and Australian bases...
...bases in this cluster of hundreds of islands and her other pin points of land in the Pacific. On Yap, on Palau, on more other islands than Navymen like to think about, she has stored fuel, erected air and submarine bases, may even have established bases for light surface craft...
Exultant at capturing the largest U.S. editorial staff (1,309), the Guild proclaimed its victory a death blow for craft unions representing editorial employes only. Members of A.N.W.A. retorted that only 70 Guild votes came from strictly editorial staffmen, and inferred that, barring stenographers, stockroom boys, morgue clerks, etc., Times editorial employes actually preferred a craft union-or at least were against the Guild's pink leadership-by three...