Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipyard worker, driving with shrouded headlights through the fog in Portland's blackout, ran down a pedestrian and killed him. A fisherman, serving as a defense guard in the town of Depoe Bay, stepped out to flag a car, was killed. Portland's City Council passed an ordinance providing fines up to $500, jail terms up to six months for blackout violations...
...could it be done? In the whole U.S. there are 85,000 training stations (each station: a lathe, drill press or other machine at which a worker can be trained in one skill). Even working in three shifts, turning out partly trained mechanics in six to eight weeks, they were not enough. But Colonel McSherry had a plan...
Died. Dr. Henry Winters Luce, 73, retired Presbyterian Missionary to China, father of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce; in Haverford, Pa. Lifelong friend of China, largely responsible for the establishment of Shantung's first Christian University and Peking's Yenching University, he was a dynamic worker for the political, cultural and religious education of the Chinese. He died in his sleep on the day the U.S. and China became allies against Japan...
...Biggest single group of boys (21%) wanted to be farmers; 3% wanted to be airplane pilots; less than 1% politicians or lawyers. Among the girls, it was nip & tuck between being a farmer's wife (8%), a schoolteacher (8%) or an agricultural extension worker...
...During recent months many new facilities and services of the Federal Government have been made available to labor. The new problems created by the all-out program of national defense affect every worker on his job and in his position as a citizen...