Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When seen the Bremen was in drydock and was hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...when Harry Woodring came out of Kansas to be Assistant Secretary in 1933. When Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936, President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was up Harry Woodring. In 1937, having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping...
...Canada was speeding war preparations. Two overseas army divisions of 32,000 were being organized, with highly mechanized equipment. Canada planned to put her shipyards to work building submarine chasers and minesweepers. Vancouver's Flying Seven, only organization of licensed women pilots in Canada, offered its services. So did Honorary Air Marshal William A. Bishop, who in World War I was officially accredited with 72 enemy planes. Hero Bishop was accepted, named tempo rary Commodore...
...women taking the major part in Britain's social reorientation, they were taking the brunt of it. The men were in the Army or the Government or carrying on in essential businesses, for the time being socially fixed. With the women it was different. Many thousands of British working women found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly in the garment trade, are reopening...
Wrens. Another able War I veteran runs the Women's Royal Naval Service ("Wrens"), a unit of 2,000 who work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid...