Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak 1942, they have fallen into habits of worrying and bickering. The worker says that the rich (who are going rapidly bankrupt) are nevertheless too rich. The rich men are mostly extremely gallant and polite, but the less gallant of them say that the worker working 50 or more hours a week is a slacker if occasionally he takes...
...social worker was talking to a girl in a slum district and said: "Where is your father?" "Oh, Pap's in the penitentiary," the girl replied. "What about your mother?" "She's out here in an insane asylum," answered the girl. "And your sister?" "She's been in the Reform School a couple of years." "Well, that just leaves you and your brother. Where's he?". "He's at Harvard." "What, you mean your brother is in college?" What's he studying?" "Oh, he ain't studying nothing. They're studying him." --Youngstown Dally Vindicator...
Giant U.S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it would soon perform a near-miracle: save critical tin supplies, make better and cheaper tinplate at the same time. The miracle-worker is a new process which plates by the electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate...
Something is happening that Adolf Hitler does not yet understand-a new re-enactment of the old American miracle of wheels and machinery, but on a new scale. This time it is a miracle of war production, and its miracle-worker is the automobile industry...
Feature speakers on the forum tonight are Leo Grosse, lecturer on political organization and administration at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Boris Klosson, former research worker at the League of Nations in Geneva...