Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women between 16 and 65. Under the law, the armed services get first pick of the Dominion's men; those left over are automatically mobilized into the civilian army. All workers are registered and their skills classified. Lowest classifications: bartenders, florists, taxi men, candy salesmen, etc. Many cannot quit a job without permission. No one can even advertise for a job, or for a worker, without a permit. N.S.S. Director Arthur MacNamara (also Deputy Minister of Labor) is empowered to shift any worker to a job where he is needed more. Transferred workers must accept the wage rates paid...
Breathing Spell. In Paris, shivering cinemactors quit work for a while on a film about the Suez Canal, explained that because of the coal shortage their vaporized breath ruined all illusion of the tropics...
...leaving food on its plate. Worried, the Quartermaster Corps ordered nutrition experts to investigate. Last week the experts reported that the WACs were doing their best, advised the Army to quit trying to founder its women with regular G.I. rations (potatoes for breakfast, double helpings...
...schedule because of one great mistake-the premature write-off of Germany. In September the Nazi armies had been driven, shredded and stumbling, out of Russia and France. Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec saying, "Victory is everywhere." In Washington the Combined Chiefs of Staff, assuming that the Germans would quit before November, earmarked heavy shipments of men, arms and supplies for the Pacific. The Leyte invasion was moved up two months...
...suppose anyone else but a Lisanti would have taken the rebuke lying down and quit competition. . . . This [year] Mama Lisanti didn't tell a single judge what she thought of him, although, Heavings knows, some of the upstarts need to be told off occasionally. . . . This time, there was nothing that could be done about it. The medal was Lois's on a platinum platter. . . . Mama Lisanti was present yesterday to see Lois receive tardy recognition for her superb horsemanship...