Word: white-collar
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...Cold. China's intellectuals today are a shabby, undernourished, despondent group who feel the cold. White-collar workers in Government offices and banks are a shade, better off: they are allowed to buy some of their necessities at low fixed prices. Labor is scarce enough to keep day wages just a notch behind the cost of living. Merchants, if they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect...
...business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O.'s 5,285,000 members, he can try to harvest votes from A.F. of L.'s 6,100,000, the Railway Brotherhoods' 350,000, the uncounted thousands of sympathetic farmers, white-collar workers and little businessmen...
Children of Mars, a less terrifying and to that extent a less true job, nevertheless performs three important services. By concentrating on a white-collar family, the film makes clear that wartime delinquency far exceeds the chronic economic slum-sickness of peacetime. Even among children of the well-to-do the present delinquency rate is high. Presented in both films, typical solutions...
...previous campaigns, Mayor Jeffries won by a 2-to-1 majority, with the support of the C.I.O. as well as the white-collar and uppercrust vote. But this time the restive, powerful United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) wanted a man of their own. They picked FitzGerald, a balding Irish attorney who showed surprising strength in 1940 as a Democratic opponent to veteran Senator Arthur Vandenberg. U.A.W. gathered a $30,000 war chest, lavished most of it on last week's primaries, and got out the biggest local labor vote since...
...White-Collar Predicament Sirs: In chronicling the contemporary American scene, it seems to me that TIME and others have failed to appreciate the predicament in which a great many millions of Americans find themselves today. I refer to the plight of white-collar workers and others who, through no fault of their own, are not benefiting by the high wages being paid in war industries...