Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human touch. Packing parachutes for the whole A.A.F. is one of its most loving cares. Some special customers even get a letter from home immediately after they make an emergency landing: in the jungle kits stitched into the parachutes they find a cozy note from the woman worker who packed the chute...
...previous meetings of the Wendell Phillips Club, such men as Ben Barker, settlement worker in Dorchester, and ex-President Guild of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have led discussions of race discrimination, and subsidies, and other vital issues...
...fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord Woolton is a onetime Liverpool settlement worker who turned to merchandising, became chairman of Lewis's Ltd. (department stores). As a Minister he had achieved the seemingly impossible, made people like him while he tampered with their eating habits...
Inventor Nelson began to make guns in his garage. At once he found a feverish market for them in the coast's mushrooming shipyards-at $500 apiece. Reason: with the old method, a fast worker could weld 40 studs in eight hours; with the rocket gun, 1,000. (A Liberty ship has 10,000 studs to hold hangers for wireways and pipes, plastic decking, etc. in place...
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...