Word: employables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most war plants, women are a novelty. The attitude of plant managers ranges all the way from that of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, which wonders why it did not employ women before, to that of Cadillac in Detroit which keeps its first 25 women workers behind a padlocked door. Says an executive: "You know...
...Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, still disgusted at having been court-thwarted in his attempt to end A.F. of L. racketeering, charged labor with deliberately obstructing the war effort. Organized labor, said he, exploited the farmers, impeded transportation, made cheap mass production of housing impossible, forced businessmen to employ "useless and unnecessary workers...
...conversion to war is complete, when the lines are all moving with the precision of timing and economy of motion that Detroit borrowed from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto industry will employ a million men & women, twice as many as it ever did, will make a billion dollars' worth of armaments a month. If Armageddon is to be decided in Detroit, Armageddon...
...criticized mainly on two counts; for its weakness of dialogue caused largely by disinterested acting, and for the overly rugged atmosphere provoked of necessity by an all-male cast. Simple and intriguing, the plot concerns the fortunes of a kicked-around citizen whom the Nazis attempt to employ because of his gift for criticism to induce an OPM official to starve the United States by declaring a priority on can-openers...
Active duty in the Naval Reserve will be for the duration of the emergency. Here is the opportunity for young men who have sailed their own craft along our coastal waters to employ their knowledge and skill in the interests of our beloved country--even those with-out maritime experience will find a career and a chance to advance rapidly while exploring the lore...