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Consequently, a welder's memberships would read like a partial roster of A.F. of L. craft unions: the Boilermakers, the Carpenters (to work on steel window frames), the Sheet Metal Workers, the Plumbers, the Sawmill Workers, the Machinists. For each new membership he had to fork out an initiation fee, until his pockets bulged with union cards but his pocketbook was flat...
While conducting their own experiments, Army ordnance officers are intently watching operations at American Fork & Hoe Co. (of Cleveland, Ohio), where steel shells are actually being made for the Canadian Army...
...from Washington: warnings, threats, appeals, horror stories, stern advice devised to wake a man up to the danger of World War II, to arouse his patriotism, make him work longer hours, buy defense bonds, write his Congressman, give up luxuries, hand over his wife's kitchen aluminum; to fork out for the Community Chest, the Czechs, Poles, Dutch, Belgians, French, Spanish, Chinese, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Finns, the Red Cross, Norwegians, British and the U.S.; to pay more taxes, use less gasoline, strike less often, have his wife go without silk stockings. Federal officials punched the needle into him with alternate...
...Scandinavian friend who lives at the fork of the road thinks TIME'S present policy is that of the father whose son had decided to marry a certain young lady. As the lady definitely was to become a member of the family, the less said the better...
...comfort in the knowledge that a tycoon's income of $274,000 would shrink to $20,000. Until last week they had not realized that a married man earning $18 a week would pay $1.40 weekly tax, that an office boy earning $10 a week would have to fork over...