Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servant shortage for the first time in its history. Surprised Atlanta, Nashville and Winston-Salem wives find that even inexperienced Negro girls demand at least five days off a month, won't stay in, won't cope with children, won't do laundry and insist on dinner at 6 p.m. (which in wartime is practically mid-afternoon...
Doctors Make Doctors. The southern republics now insist that all new doctors be "nationals." Anticipating this move ten years ago, Standard has been bringing South American doctors to the U.S. for specialized training. This year the company plans to take promising youngsters right out of South American undergraduate schools, bring them to the U.S. for their complete medical education...
Prevention of dermatitis is fairly simple. Doctors and safety engineers emphasize slightly different measures. Industrial doctors insist primarily on cleanliness -plenty of scrubbing with mild soaps both in the factory and at home, frequent changes of clothes which have been carefully designed to keep out dust and fumes. "It has been found best to have the management of the plant undertake the laundering of such clothes," advises Dr. Schwartz, "because the worker himself is often loathe to spend the money." Cost to the factory runs about 10? a day per worker...
...basic fault in war production to date has been that the Army & Navy have insisted on ordering everything, from battleships to pistol cartridges, that might prove useful in any kind of a war anywhere on the face of the earth. No Production Boss can balance production and avoid shortages unless he persuades-or forces-the military strategists to adopt a specific, limited program calling for specific types of material. Thus far Nelson has lost practically every round with the Army & Navy, which in general still insist on building everything at once. And this fundamental error overstrains production from raw materials...
...such concentration destroy the "good-will" value of their trade-marks and ruin the competitive position of the "squeezed-out" firms in trading after the war, are opposing the program as strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position in their own industry...