Search Details

Word: white-collar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Voice of Reuben | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Southward Trek | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Skirmishes | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Days | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Assembly Line Symphony | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Previous | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | Next