Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Girls who sit up with children while parents spend an evening out have upped rates from 35? to 50? an hour. In some cities main takers for such jobs are American Women's Voluntary Service juniors who mind war workers' children for "credits" toward the right to wear...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., said today the government must turn to "forced individual savings" to raise urgent war revenue because the voluntary bond purchase program, in which he had much faith, had failed.
An emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a...
> WLB okayed a wage boost for 400 employes in 13 St. Louis machine shops, then ordered all workers earning over $1 an hour to invest "at least 10%" of their pay in war bonds. This is not as revolutionary as it sounds: both labor and management had agreed to the...
In a new program aimed at complete physical fitness, Yale University is organizing Commando combat teams which will undertake a voluntary training program modeled on the Olympic Pentathlon. The Yale unit will not, however, prepare students for war but merely toughen them for future training.