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Thin and Uneducated. Thin women, without college degrees or white-collar experience, will soon hold more than half the jobs in the Chicago ordnance district's shell-production plants, Army officers announced. Officers predicted that thinness, lack of education and lack of white-collar experience would soon get women more & more of the jobs in tank production and other war work. Reasons: feminine dexterity and patience make them superior to men in assembly and inspection work; thin people are less troubled by the heat, and are faster workers; college graduates and white-collar workers do not like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Patterns | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...fever has removed the social stigma from factory work: many women enlisting for industry are nurses, teachers, saleswomen, even Junior Leaguers, who would not have dreamed of factory work a year ago. White-collar girls in plant offices ask transfers to the shop, where life is "more exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MANPOWER: Women & Machines | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...poor were growing richer, the rich poorer. War-factory payrolls had brought back World War I's silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rich, New Poor | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...colleges offer, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. There used to be a time, at the turn of the century, when a man with four years of cultural background was a rarity. In recent years it has been difficult to get a white-collar job without the degree, but almost as tough to get one with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artes Liberales | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

Throughout the rest of Uruguay the people remained calm. They raised few questions when President Baldomir explained over the radio that he had acted drastically because the Herreristas "wanted a government with a Nazi attitude." They accepted his statement that he would not run again for President. They-the white-collar and working classes, which form the main Government support-cheered when President Alfredo Baldomir pledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: The People Cheered | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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