Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laboratory Assistant Rose Parrott, the Institute's first woman worker, died of tularemia (rabbit fever) last autumn, ten days after she was to have been retired after 30 years' service. She had not even entered the room where tularemia work was done. (Most tularemia workers get it sooner or later...
...Laboratory Worker Harry Anderson died in 1930 of psittacosis (parrot fever...
...State Department has been more unmercifully attacked by the liberal-left wing press than Jimmy Dunn. (Reputedly, he had a big hand in the pro-Franco and pro-Vichy appeasement policies of the early war years.) But Jimmy Dunn is also a shy, aloof, painstaking worker who knows State Department doings inside out. He started as a clerk 26 years ago, married an Armour, lives fashionably on Massachusetts Avenue...
...before the dust had settled from Foreign Secretary Bevin's first forthright venture into the field of foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for sweeping changes. Editorialized the Communist Daily Worker: "This is not yet the lead which millions of service and home voters . . . are waiting for." More sober and more traditional was the sizing-up of the Manchester Guardian: "British foreign policy, as Mr. Bevin expounded it, is not a matter of party...
Without letting her know what was wrong with him, he did his best to break off with his sweetheart, Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker). But thanks to her love and patience, the pep talks of his fellow marine Lee Diamond (Dane Clark) and the kindliness of a Red Cross worker (Rosemary De Camp), he was finally won back into human circulation...