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...Hell Hat was launched last week at the Albina yards at Portland (Ore.). She is a PCE submarine chaser.* She is named for a woman, who is nicknamed after her hat. The woman is Jean Muir, Oregon Journal reporter...
Blue-eyed, thirtyish Jean Muir used to write club and society notes, found them "so much drip." Nineteen months ago she asked for and got another assignment: writing about the 125,000 workers who make her native Portland one of the shipbuildingest centers of the U.S. Her "By the Ways" column is crammed with names of men & women pipe fitters, torch-scissorers, crane wanglers, and with what they...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...
...National Association of Manufacturers announced a 200-man War Committee to siphon more & faster production from its 8,000 members (who hold 80% of all war contracts) and to help Don Nelson find and use their best industrial talent.* To head its steering committee, N.A.M. selected Malcolm Muir, publisher of Newsweek...
...yard free style relay--Won by Brookline (Muir, Fogg, Walsh, Bullard); second, Harvard (Reid, Nussbaum, Close, Everts.) Time...