Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME (Aug. 3) in the article entitled . . . "Voice from the Mountain," the last sentence read as follows: "The post-war world was not all a matter of social-worker theory; it would also involve harsh duties, hard work and economic sense...
...evident that Dictator Franco was still trying to get some sort of political unity in a land where millions still hate him and the men who stand with him. His greatest problem has been to try to reconcile the Falange and the Catholic Church. The Falange, preaching Spartan morals, worker syndicates and Fascist ideology, has fought with the church over early child training and with business interests fearing leftism. At the same time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish...
Contribution. In Kansas City, boisterous children in the street broke the sleep of Lawrence Olson, night worker in a war plant, till Irving Philgreen, 8, took up picketing with a sign: "Quiet! V defense worker sleeping...
Many people are allergic or sensitive to chemicals such as turpentine, T.N.T., formaldehyde, fulminate of mercury, picrates, synthetic dyes, etc. Slight exposure to them is often harmless, but prolonged exposure or a sudden "overdose" may cause the worker to become sensitized, so that thenceforth even slight exposure produces eruptions or scaliness on his hands, arms, face, body. In one summer half the workers in a Pennsylvania plastics factory had dermatitis when they became sensitized to the formaldehyde in the material...
...scrubbing with mild soaps both in the factory and at home, frequent changes of clothes which have been carefully designed to keep out dust and fumes. "It has been found best to have the management of the plant undertake the laundering of such clothes," advises Dr. Schwartz, "because the worker himself is often loathe to spend the money." Cost to the factory runs about 10? a day per worker...