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Reuben wrote to his Congressmen. Post-office crews had to wade through his mail -10,000 letters for Senator Taft alone. Letters poured in from farmers, labor, housewives, white-collar workers. Whatever the sins of OPA, the U.S. consumer had been persuaded by ex-Advertising Man Chester Bowles that only OPA stood between him and disaster...
What worried Canadian authorities most was the sharp increase in the number of visas issued to top-class citizens. Visas for professional, clerical and other white-collar categories had shown the biggest rise of any group, 2,232 issued in the last six months of 1945, compared with 1,770 in the year...
...Trainmen on Chicago's elevated lines, piqued because the company sent out retroactive pay rise checks to its white-collar workers before getting round to them, snarled traffic all afternoon with a work stoppage which was called as "proof our union will preserve its dignity...
...month. For the first part of the month a family can cook. After the 20th of the month people try to eat with friends, buy black-market coal or eat uncooked food. Since 1942, the Government has been trying to lift the Hokkaido coal production through "voluntary" recruiting of white-collar workers. Many clerks have been forced to work as miners...
Today Sperry boasts some 30 ex-professionals who took jobs in the plant and found a chair in the orchestra waiting for them. White-collar workers fill a third of the chairs, but are by no means the top instrumentalists. A former Metropolitan Opera French horn player operates a lathe; the concertmaster (once a hot fiddler for Kate Smith) runs a milling machine. One of the touchiest problems faced by the coldly democratic organization was a none-too-musical Sperry executive who insisted on playing second violin...