Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emphasizing the need for men to teach and lead boys of the underprivileged classes in sports and handicraft activities, Committee Chairman Richard W. Kislik '48, urged all students who volunteered at registration and others interested in this work to report today to the Committee's office on the first floor of Brooks House...
Consumer goods are scarce, but Stockmann's, the big department store whose shelves were empty two years ago, now has fine pottery, glassware, furniture, Finnish handicraft. Fats and meat are rare, but the Finnish calory level is higher than most of Europe's; eggs, potatoes and vegetables are off the ration list. A smartly dressed woman in Helsinki is marked as a visiting Swede from the neighboring land of plenty, for clothes are still scarce (one pair of stockings each year for women, one suit and one shirt for each man every 16 months, new shoes only...
...they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking to the day when handicraft sales abroad may do for Peru what like industries have done for Switzerland and Czechoslovakia...
Many of the wives have part-time jobs to add to their husbands' G.I. allowance of $75 a month (single men get $50). The college tries to keep them all entertained by letting them play squash in the men's gym, join in music, stage and handicraft groups. Next step: special classes for the wives...
Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35? daily, skilled workers 50?. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans...