Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
...Nebraska-born Dr. Walter H. Judd is running for the Congressional nomination in the Fifth District (Minneapolis). He went to China first in 1924, did medical-missionary work four years, superintended a hospital, and returned to the U.S. in 1932 to study in the famed Mayo Clinic. From another stint in China he came back to preach that the U.S. must beware the Japs...
...Washington the Secretary of the Navy has also turned in a magnificent performance within his native limitations. He has courage-he did not try to cover up the bungling which was responsible for Pearl Harbor-and he has energy, which he gives to his job without stint. As the U.S. is now organized for war he may be doing as well as any Secretary could. Some day he may even give his Navy Department a reorganization-and continue to be the same kind of Navy Secretary that...
...Mary Welsh will visit her folks in Thief River Falls, Minnesota-and steal a short vacation with a Chippewa Chief named Kau-kau-kan who taught her to paddle a birchbark canoe when she was twelve. Before she goes back to London she will do a short stint in TIME'S editorial office here, to share her intimate, on-the-spot knowledge of Britain directly with our editors...
...Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...