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There are now 16,000,000 U.S. women with jobs, 3,500,000 of them in war industry. In a factory job which does not require strength, a contented woman worker can turn out half again as much work as a man. The rub: keeping the women contented. So prone are they to complain, get sick, ache, stay home, quit, that many a factory supervisor will be glad when his women are paid off for good...
...land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last-chapter reversal. He concludes : "America will hit the shoals of unemployment and free itself. It will rub along the reefs of depression and then reach new levels of production...
Eleanor Roosevelt explained a nose-rubbing picture widely published in U.S. papers. She said that the head Maori guide in New Zealand, "a fine-looking woman" named Ragni, had asked permission to greet her "as we greet all distinguished visitors." Mrs. Roosevelt added that when she was a little girl her father "used to say, 'Let's have a Chinese kiss,' and then we would rub noses. ... I was very glad my father had taught me to rub noses properly...
Their Own Backs. "The Russians are very practical. When a soldier comes out of anesthesia, they throw a machine gun in bed with him, and he spends his time taking it apart and putting it together again. There are no Red Cross girls around to rub the backs of the wounded soldiers, no basket weaving...
...launch a one-man war against the Conservatives. His program: 1) to pry the Labor Ministers out of Churchill's coalition Cabinet ("Come out of the Government and fight for your socialist convictions-if you still have them. If you've lost them, get out"); 2) to rub out the shame of Munich ("Anybody who was associated with the Chamberlain Government should be hounded out of public life"); 3) to capture Leslie Hore-Belisha's seat in the House of Commons ("About a year ago Hore-Belisha went into a monastery and came out saying he wanted...