Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...
...used in many College and University courses. They comprised one of the first comprehensive studies ever undertaken to determine the effects of a highly industrial society on the individual and groups. Most famous of Professor Mayo's surveys is his treatise on the Western Electric Company's experiments on worker efficiency and phychology in specialized assembly line tasks. This book is a standard text in Social Relations...
...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
...Deep Freeze. In the Cambria County seat of Ebensburg, the Republicans fought the ghost of Colonel Coffey with 1949-style campaign oratory: "It's the first election since the deep freeze and the last chance before socialism takes over in the United States." A party worker addressed 100 Republicans. "All the heroes are not dead and all the heroes are not in the Democratic party," he said. "John Phillips Saylor is a hero...
...camp site of one of the early tribes has now come to light in Wyoming. In 1939 Jimmy Allen, sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads...