Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor faced the wartime loss of the most basic of all its economic rights-the right to quit a job and go to work elsewhere. The McNutt Manpower Mobilization Board put on its fright wig last week and announced that war workers were going to have to stay put. would have to quit changing jobs to get higher wages in other labor-short war plants. The Board's reason: pirating of workers by manufacturers who offer higher pay impedes production and upsets wage scales which the Government is trying to stabilize...
...AntiChristian espionage" is widespread, the Cardinal charged, and priests are prevented from reading "certain episcopal documents" by the simple expedient of arrest. Churchgoers are being morally blackmailed by instructions that "less faithful attendance . . . means keeping your job." Party functionaries are quoted as asking Catholics to quit the church or quit the future of Greater Germany. Though Nazi Party meetings go on to small hours, young people are forbidden to attend evening church festivals, because "they last too long and prevent their getting sufficient sleep...
...Northwestern University, graduated in 1929, went to work as a stockroom clerk in a Walgreen store in Chicago, married Ruth Walgreen, the founder's daughter, and rose to be general manager of Walgreen Co. By last year he had been divorced from the founder's daughter and quit...
...greatest concentration of light in all the world blinked out. Suddenly dark were the marquees and façades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway's lights probably will not glitter brightly again until the war is over. "Dim-outs" will...
...Doolittle quit speed flying in the Army, went to work for Shell Petroleum Corp. In July 1940 he heard the drone of warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...