Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems like these bothered factory managers a year ago. But now, perhaps, a very shapely sweater girl wanders in to take her place in the swing shift. Low whistles follow her as she ambles down the aisle between machines. But a few minutes later a grey-haired factory chaperon catches her in the ladies' room. The chaperon is tactful (workers are hard to get). She admires the sweater girl's figure but says it would be a shame if because of her some man lost a hand under a punch press. Next night the girl comes back...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...
Vaguely people feel that this sudden shift is somehow due to the war, to a longing to escape through music from realities that have become so harsh and drab, to a revived sense of the nearness of death which lies at the root of the appreciation as well as the creation of great music. But whatever the reasons for the change, the facts were startling enough...
When possible, gloves should be transparent: if workers cannot see their hands, they feel confined and prefer to work gloveless. Improper living outside working hours often precipitates a dermatosis and doctors are increasingly fretful over the zoot-suit-swing-shift aspect of war industry...
...tidal wave as the Arizona burned, the Oklahoma capsized and U.S. soldiers & sailors died in action for the first time in 23 years. The reporters: the News Bureau Staff of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE. Their assignment: the people of the U.S. Public-opinion polls could record the shift of ideas on the great issues of neutrality, of isolation, of war and peace. The task of the writers of this book was to record "what the People were seeing and doing; how they felt and what they said about a new America, a new way of living." Quickly, without conscious...