Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick's supporters will be more hindrance than help: such "Eastern interests" as the C.I.O. and the Communist Daily Worker...
Frank Crowe hates carelessness. As a result Shasta has killed only twelve men. Once he bellowed at a worker: "Watch what the hell you're doing or you'll fall and break your neck." Retorted the worker: "Well, it's my neck." "Yes, it's your neck now," Crowe shot back, "but as soon as you break it, it's mine...
...paraphrase Professor Hanson's quotation by Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor's solution to the plight of the white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...
...Unbelievable. He devised brand-new production-line methods to turn out the infinitely intricate gun mounts, which contain some 7,000 watchlike parts. To man his plant in manpowerless Minneapolis, he raided other companies, even gave his workers a $10 bonus for each new worker brought in. To whoop up pro duction he served turkey dinners in the plant for 25?, gave War Bond door prizes, installed foot baths for employes, bombarded them with such Hawley slogans as: "Let's work like hell for liberty." The Navy showered "E's" and praise on Hawley. Said one admiring naval...
...from home overnight before he joined the Army; a hotel manager of 23 who had his own orchestra; an automobile mechanic; a 24-year-old reporter on the Shelby, N.C. Daily Star; a 27-year-old employe of the National Shawmut Bank in Boston; a 24-year-old fur worker from Brooklyn; a 29-year-old high-school principal from Georgia; the floor manager of the Hi-Skor bowling alley in Washington; a printer from Worcester; a lawyer; a section hand; a real-estate dealer; a professional roller skater; the 25 -year-old assistant office manager of a wholesale grocery...