Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after TIME hit the newsstands with the story Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal...
Succumbing to last week's pandemic strike fever, the women elevator operators of Boston's 13-story Statler Building held an excited conference over cigarets in the powder room. They decided to strike posthaste for discharge of their unpopular supervisor and a raise...
Brrr. In Chicago, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Cold Snow made winter reservations at Sarasota, Fla. In Pearl Harbor, the Navy Yard supervisor of refrigeration was Jack Frost...
...Seattle. Tetel Takayoshi, graduate of the University of Washington and prewar teaching supervisor at King County's Harborview Hospital, returned to her old job. "I'm glad to be back," she reassured her friends. "I was born here-this is my home." But after eleven days of snubs and silences she quietly packed her bags, headed back to Denver...
...Results to date: 1) Red Thomas and two fellow delinquents have been charged with second-degree murder; 2) the remaining boy prisoners have been moved to new quarters with a new supervisor (the University of Washington's boxing-wrestling coach); 3) Seattle has a new county jail superintendent; 4) eight mothers working in a Seattle factory quit to go back to housekeeping...