Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking for a summer job. John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Bureau, has three suggestions for the prospective vacation-time worker...
...Ecole Polytechnique and the Sorbonne in his native France were the sources of LeCorbeiller's own general education. A worker in the French Ministry of Communications, he came to this country in 1941 to set up his Shepard Street household, which includes Mrs. L. who audits her husband's GE course and son Jean a College undergraduate...
...carefully stitched together was coming apart at the seams. Quite obviously, the situation called for a master tailor with a masterly political needle. And the time for him to do his repair work was at last week's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington. But no such wonder-worker appeared...
...women's current grievances, such as they were, were technological rather than political. Chief villain was the household chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
When the home-town pottery plant closed down in 1927, little Scio, Ohio (it rhymes; pop. 1,450) began to die. When Lewis P. Reese, a rough-handed West Virginia pottery worker, scraped up $8,000 and bought the plant at a sheriff's sale one day in 1933, the town came to life again. Reese thought he knew how to save Scio; he was sure he could mass-produce teacups, saucers, plates, etc. for 5? apiece and compete with cheap Japanese chinaware...