Word: white-collar
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...