Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon lean, tall, Red Cross Worker Robert Porter, breakfasting in an army mess, heard a noise he had learned to heed in China. He called: "Those are the Japanese." Unbelieving officers scrambled from the mess hall for a look, agreed with Porter only when one officer exclaimed: "They must be Japanese. We haven't got that many bombers...
Last week one expert offered an answer. Professor Harold Burris-Meyer, director of research in sound at Stevens Institute of Technology, released results of elaborate tests with factory music from Bach to boogie-woogie. Once, in a big Philadelphia laundry, his experiments were so shattering that one worker burst into tears and ran home. But his overall findings show that scientifically planned music increases factory production by 1.3 to 11.1% (in factories already employing music...
...weeklies (distributed free at the plant gates) merely extend McKinnon's parochial publishing formula: they print almost nothing except news about the personal doings of shipyard and aircraft workers. Though they devote a page to intramural sports, they did not mention the World Series. Worker-correspondents contribute items and cartoons at 5? an inch. Some 25 mechanics, jib builders, lathe operators and the like have become columnists, complete with bylines and photographs...
Composed originally of a seven man crew: a physician, an anthropologist, a physiologist, two psychiatrists, a psychologist, and a personnel worker, plus over 270 students who have participated, the Grant Study has been gathering material for the past four years to analyze the forces which go to produce normal men. It is this material which will be the basis of their officer candidates selection program...
Rich. In Portland a new nonunion worker pays $20 (helpers) to $30 (mechanics) as initiation fee, then $3 to $3.50 a month dues. In other cities fees and dues are almost as large. So, with perhaps 175,000 initiates since the war boom began, the union's take would be about...