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...joint declaration by the United Nations, which was dated Jan. 1, 1942 at Washington, been rescinded by its signers, which included all nations now fighting the Axis? Or do their pledges mutually to employ their full resources, both military and economic, against members of the Tripartite Pact and not to make a separate peace mean nothing...
There have been women Marines before. In World War I the Corps enlisted 305 (but commissioned no officers), winced when the U.S. public called them "Marinettes." This time the Marine Corps, planning to employ women as stenographers, parachute riggers, radio workers, telephone operators and other behind-the-line jobs, wanted no nickname for its new recruits-not even leatherneck...
Malaria is fought by fighting mosquitoes or by interrupting the plasmodia life-cycle at some point. Men use old-fashioned mosquito nets, oil on mosquito-breeding water, citronella to keep from getting the dangerous mosquito bites. In some parts of India the U.S. Army does not employ native labor lest the mosquitoes pick up plasmodia from their blood. Antimalarial chemicals can kill sexual forms of the protozoa in a patient's blood, prevent a mosquito from carrying his infection to others. No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man. Chemicals can get them after they...
Occasioned by wartime conditions, and aimed against labor hoarding by corporations, Walter Reuther's suggestions may be a foretaste of many a labor proposal for maintaining full employment in peace. They likewise suggest many a problem. If pressure is applied against part-time employment, will not some men lose their jobs altogether? If firms are ordered to employ a given number of men on full-time pay, who is to decide when a firm should cut its production, or go out of business? Finally, can Government dictate employment short of full socialization...
Manpower. More & more department stores will turn to self-service as the manpower shortage grows, more & more small retailers will close up as their one or two employes drift away to other better-paying jobs, or the owners themselves find they can make more money in a shipyard. Already turnover in jobs is fantastically high, some stores reporting 40-50% as against a normal turnover of 10%. Only hope of maintaining sales staffs at all is to employ elderly and middle-aged saleswomen, hire students on part-time...