Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Wash Windows...
...only a fraction of a work unit because she puts a new strain on laundries, shops, nurses, hospitals and other services. A New York planebuilder recently complained that when he hired 5,800 women, he had to get 1,800 men to replace them when they stayed home to wash diapers...
Since 1940 State Senator Frederic R. Coudert's Legislative Subcommittee has been chiefly noted for its efforts to wash out leftish teachers (TIME, Dec. 16, 1940; March 31, 1941). But in its new report the Committee advocated several left-of-center measures, wound up by citing Britain's welfare planner Sir William Beveridge: to get maximum war effort from citizens, make them feel that the Government is planning "a better world...
...with operations stepped up still further, Consolidated Timber hopes to take out more than a billion feet-one-sixth of the U.S. 1942 lumber "deficit." By 1945, when lumbermen expect that the bugs will have taken over what remains of the old stand, Consolidated's nursery at Nisqually, Wash, (which turns out 10,000,000 seedlings a year) should be well on the way to reforesting Tillamook...
...harbor city, but a strong, spicy smell which makes you think of Oriental cities. It was a city of humming, busy life where all the races of the world jostled each other-and frequently fought-in dark and narrow streets. Its houses were ugly and dirty, narrow and low. Wash lines were strung from window to window across the streets, and all the time heads were wagging behind the drying clothes in interminable conversation. Even for a Frenchman the argot is difficult, if not impossible, to understand. But its rhythm and music are unforgettable and make you love...