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...look after the low-income group, the masses, and let Astor St. take care of itself. Our ambition is to be the Henry Ford of the refrigerator business." He has set up an "educational department" to train icemen to make friends with women. They should help them with their housework, should show them where to put things in the icebox to get full benefit from the ice. He wants all his icemen to be like one he knows in St. Louis, who in wintertime puts on several sweaters instead of an overcoat so his customers will not decide...
...suggest you come down to Miami Beach, park a camp chair . . . and just sit and wait. Sooner or later everyone you've ever known or heard of is sure to wander by. ... As for the maid situation, there are no maids in Florida. Everybody does her own housework. The usual household consists of a nurse for the children, a cleaning woman two or three times a week, and Madame with her sleeves rolled up the rest of the time...
Divorced. By Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge Lange, 24, onetime tele phone girl who inherited $2,500,000 from the late motor-heir Daniel George Dodge; U.S. Army Captain William Anding Lange, 33, peacetime plastic surgeon; in Detroit. Mrs. Lange said that her husband made her do all her own housework...
...Chicago's suburb Highland Park, one harassed young housewife gets up early, prepares breakfast, packs the children off to school, sets about the housework-while the maid she has employed for five years sleeps till noon. The maid married a soldier at Fort Sheridan a few months ago, now rents the servant's room in exchange for a few afternoon's work a week. Occasionally she works by the hour for neighbors, earns more in 10-15 hours a week than she did as a full-time maid...
...They worry about their homes and children. "Women can perform 80% of all the war jobs now engaged in by men," claims Dr. Carey P. McCord, medical director of the Chrysler Corp., "but too many women are being absent from work because they must catch up on their housework...