Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: ... As a former Red Cross Recreation Worker, overseas in the Southwest Pacific Area for 18 months, I say we were strictly "G.I." Regarding our love affairs, does Mr. Jason know that 75% of the R.C. girls in the SWPA married enlisted...
...famed Permanente hospitals, which, at the shipbuilding peak, had over 75,000 Henry Kaiser workers as subscribers, have now begun to let the general public join up at the low war-worker rate (60? a person a week). More than half of the present 40,000 subscribers are now non-shipbuilders. The hospitals' 80 doctors, who have a good record for operations, are convinced that their best work has been in keeping people from getting very sick. A patient gets care when he begins to need it, rather than when he can no longer...
...BLACK ROSE - Thomas B. Costain - Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor...
...Daily Worker was caught with its ideological pants down and Editor Budenz's name still on the masthead. After a seething silence, Communist hierarchs formally excommunicated Budenz from the Communist faithful, calling him a deserter and blaming the "political looseness and carelessness" of ex-Party Chief Earl Browder's regime...
...Guston, now an art instructor at St. Louis' Washington University. His Sentimental Moment is a sentimental study of a plump-armed, dreamy girl for which he used no model. "I simply had it in my mind and transferred it to canvas." Guston, who is 33, was a factory worker and a truck driver until WPA came along and gave him a full-time chance to work at art. Of his Sentimental Moment, the New York Times's ponderously judicious Edward Alden Jewell wrote: "There is a kind of 'museum look' about it. . . . I should never have...