Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneasy Japan. Tojo's decrees were but the latest step in a long campaign of regimentation. The Emperor himself has become a whip with which the Army urges the worker to still greater effort, the soldier to still greater sacrifice...
...Look magazine his week Wendell Willkie plainly answers five questions. For one, he says: "If the Republican Party intends to drive for liberal objectives, I shall give it my complete service, as the nominee or as a worker in the ranks...
When the works manager told Sydney he would have to work in the pits, the boy refused. Promptly he was sentenced to a month in prison; under the Essential Works Orders, no war worker may refuse the job to which he is assigned...
...office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
...remodel and enlarge an old hospital near Richmond (Calif.), whose population had jumped from 23,000 to 127,000. Soon the money began pouring back into the banks at the rate of $50,000 a month-the Garfield plan was raking in 7? a day from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies. Later Garfield built other hospitals, many first-aid stations in Kaiser shipyards and plants. The hospitals have air conditioning, attractive paint jobs and Venetian blinds. The most unusual feature: rooms are private or semiprivate, because Garfield believes pleasant surroundings help recovery; and "Henry Kaiser...