Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen spot CPers? Said R.I.A.: read the New York Daily Worker for a sure guide to the Party line. Watch workers for their attitudes towards prominent anti-Communist labor leaders such as David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther. Read all the campaign material issued by both sides in plant elections. Characteristics of CP literature: violence of utterance; unreasonable criticisms; charges that the opposition is fascist; use of such CP jargon as "deviationist," "Lovestoneite," "revisionist," "capitalist contradiction," "dialectic," "mass base...
...Hope. Servicemen still in the Pacific hoped that this would be the last journey for their dead comrades. So did the only war widow who has yet visited her husband's grave in a Pacific battlefield. Said Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews, whose husband, Second Lieut. Ernest A. Matthews, died at Tarawa...
...consensus of entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...
...share its prosperity, he tempered the irresponsible tactics that had served well enough in the freebooting days of dollar diplomacy. Ten years ago there was not a school in the outlying banana farms; today, United Fruit provides free schooling (and milk enough to please Henry Wallace) for every worker's child. Its hospitals, open to all, are the tropics' best...
Soap First, Then Art. Mary Kingsbury, born in Boston's suburban Chestnut Hill, and Radcliffe-educated, had been a "social worker" for several years; but she despised the Lady Bountiful attitude the term implied. Says she: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic...