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...easy to send a crew of unemployed huskies down into a ditch. More puzzling problems to Harry Hopkins and his Works Progress Administration are unemployed bookkeepers, engineers, accountants. Last week from Washington came word of a unique white-collar project in Philadelphia, which Mr. Hopkins described as of literally unestimable value to the world's aerial and ocean navigators. The project: a complete set of Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Azimuth Project | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Nippys (waitresses) in Lyons' Corner House on London's Oxford Street last week eyed their patrons carefully. If the customer was a day-to-day white-collar snack-snatcher, the nippy said, as usual: "Yes sir, your order please, sir." But if he was a bizarre, loosely clad foreigner, the nippy said: "Si Sinjoro, vian ordenon, mi petas, Sinjoro." In nearby University of London's University College, some 1,400 delegates of 40 nationalities were gathered in a Congress of the International Esperanto League, and Lyons Restaurants (the Childs chain of England) never miss a trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kongreso in Anglujo | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...among the lately lionized workers of the U. S. is the white-collar man. Because organized Labor long accepted his view that he was not of the overalled proletariat, he could, even two years ago, hardly have found a union had he wanted to. Since then C.I.O's top white-collar union, United Office & Professional Workers of America has boomed from 6.000 to 45,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dunces Capped | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE CLASS: Knoble Experiment | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...addition, Mr. Hopkins removed WPA's $1,000-a-year ceiling for Northern and Western white-collar workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Showers from Heaven | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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