Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1941, Harry Schooler was working on Vega Aircraft's "swing shift" (4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.). He worked while most people played, and found amusement places closed when he came out to play. One night he rented the Burbank Elks' hall, gave an after-midnight dance (25? for men, women free). He played records for his fellow swing shifters and netted...
...Schooler enterprises now: 1) dances seven nights a week at the Aragon; 2) swing shift dances on Friday and Saturday at Casino Gardens (12:30 to 5 a.m.); 3) Shrine Auditorium dances for Negroes about once a month, whenever a big-name Negro band is available; 4) barn-dancing in the Plantation Ballroom, Culver City...
Toolmaker Schooler (now on the graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since...
Lieutenant Lewis is familiar with the course here, as he experienced it himself last year. The shift of positions is expected to bring about greater cooperation between the M. I. T. and Harvard Schools because each Officer-in-Charge will have knowledge of the nature of the other school...
...Selective Service Bureau will shift state and local quotas in an attempt to induct all available non-fathers, wherever they may reside, before drafting of fathers begins. (But non-fathers with occupational deferments will not be taken...