Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things were considerably worse at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where, it is reported, Mrs. Siy, the early-shift char, came in to find a femur of the long-jawed dactyl bearing the legend: "Lamarck was here." At the Jefferson Physic Laboratory, a freckle-faced bootblack was captured brining a candle at both ends and rapidly making calculations...
...Cleveland, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther announced that contracts covering 400,000 of his autoworkers would be reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
Against Labor's new rotation shift system, the Tories (outnumbered 394 to 190) could put up nothing but strong black coffee and sheer physical stamina...
...Morrison Shift. The Tories looked wan and depressed. After the echoes of senior Party Leader Winston Churchill's voice had died away at their Blackpool conference (TIME, Oct. 14), little solid matter was left. With Conservative Party policy only a. vague outline, the Tories could do little but peck pettishly at Herbert Morrison for using a Government automobile on a vacation trip...
...eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came back with minor blue...