Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their big New York homes...
...limited because only a few U. S. brass rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying...
...sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been called out of limbo to work...
Unions. To the question "Do you approve of the idea of labor unions?" manufacturers voted...
Progress. To the chemical industry in general, to Du Pont de Nemours in particular, business gave top billing for the greatest technological progress (second were automakers and General Motors). Rated highest in the handling and treatment of labor were the auto industry and Ford, in putting their best foot forward to the public: automakers and General Motors...