Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers are accustomed to wash the shop up a bit, carry out of a few tons of rubbish, and then boast 'Our plant is just as clean as those of Ford.' This, of course, is nonsense. Ford has his smooth cement floors washed with soap three and four times a day. If the paint comes off anywhere a man shows up immediately with a brush and touches up the spot...
...years when Germany's armies came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal Institute for Unemployment Insurance, promised to find the girls paying jobs at the end of the "kitchen year." Cried he: "Are young German girls, your daughters, to receive as their first...
...Author. Small, shy and blond, Robert Cantwell at 26 inspires more respect than is usual for one so young. Born in Little Falls, Wash., he had one year at the University Of Washington, then went to work in a veneer plant. In the course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with...
...Mutual Health Service which, at a probable cost of about $27 a year per person, will insure full medical care to families earning less than $1,500 a year. People who want a concrete idea of what group medicine can become could look last week to Tacoma, Wash. Tacoma's Dr. Albert Wellington Bridge. 54, had just signed a new 20-year-lease on Ohanapecosh Hot Springs in Mount Rainier National Park. His Ohanapecosh resort is but a sideline with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under...
...acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...