Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to see again because he got new corneas for his eyes through the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946 et ante). Last week the eye bank's third annual report told about his case. Other recent cases: a railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband...
...Elliott peered out from under bushy red eyebrows and a soiled worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
Died. Albert Henry Stanley, first Baron Ashfield of Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George's World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London's subways, finally (with the Labor government's help) unified the city's whole transport system into a single $1 billion public...
Hopkins, the once selfless social worker, began to show all the signs of an avidly ambitious politician. Writes Sherwood: "Harry Hopkins, in the promotion of his own slender chances, was impelled to connive, plot and even to misrepresent . . ." Then, says Sherwood, when his illness compelled Hopkins to renounce that impossible ambition, "in the war years . . . he became and remained one of the most incorruptible...