Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper it should be easy enough to recruit 5,500,000 added workers from somewhere. A WPA survey estimated that 7,600,000 nonworkers (92% women) might be induced to forsake kitchen or lounge for office and factory, and another 5,700.000 (72% women) might accept part-time jobs...
...amazingly good record women are making in war work. In Detroit, where women workers have been a small minority (one out of ten as against the U.S. average of one out of five) they are now the main hope of relieving the labor shortage, and plans to recruit 80,000 are in the works. Detroit's experience with them has been happy. When jobs are cut down to their size, when working conditions are fitted to their needs, they do well-often better than men. Significant is Ford's program at Willow Run: 19,000 women have already...
...Recruit. At Fort Dix, N.J., John Merighi, who had undergone 40 operations, been blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, half paralyzed, and had a headache for ten years, was found physically fit at last, admitted to the Army...
...Presbyterian foreign missions have been hard hit-307 missionaries are in Jap-controlled areas. But the Assembly voted to recruit 500 new missionaries to send to areas now war-blocked the moment peace comes. Meanwhile Presbyterians are doing more in Latin America...
...rejection in the Navy (outside of clear-cut insanity) are epilepsy, migraine and sleepwalking-all disorders especially dangerous on board ship. About five boys in every 100 are discharged at once; borderline cases are kept for a three-week observation period. Navy doctors see to it that every rejected recruit is taken in tow by social workers at home, helped to fit into useful civilian activity...