Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
Meanwhile the Aeronautical Mechanics' Union okayed an increase in the work day from eight to ten hours, but its membership voted it down. This jeopardized a stopgap measure Phil Johnson was promoting: a five-hour shift for housewives to cover the gap between two ten-hour shifts. Probability: Flying Fortress production will continue...
...Near Targets. In the flexible Allied air command, the Doolittle and Coningham forces often meshed for common operations. Thus a target of both was the railway system which threads Sicily's mountains and connects its ports, enabling the Axis to shift its reserve forces quickly...
...became Prime Minister. To the post of Foreign Minister came tough-minded, able Numan Menemencioglu, probably the most clever and hard-headed member of the trio which now guides Turkey's destiny and a man who follows only one policy: that which best serves his nation. With this shift, direct control of foreign affairs passed from Saracoglu's hands, but Turkey's international relations have remained his principal interest...
...with hundreds of newsmen & women, sparked with many an engrossing anecdote (for example, about the New York Herald Tribune's onetime ban on words like "blood" and "sexual"; the bizarre way staffers on the old Paris Herald lived; the innards-corroding strain of working on the "lobster" (night) shift, where "every meal is breakfast...