Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voorhies, who during the war, was a research worker at the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and worked at Los Alames with the Manhattan project, will make cosmic rays his special field of study for the year granted by the Fellowship...
Senator Taft's "Let 'em eat less!" [TIME, Sept. 22] reminds me of the story of the welfare worker who was instructing a group of low-income housewives how to make nutritious soup from a soup bone. When she finished she inquired if there were any questions...
...Employers may not dismiss a "directed worker," nor "hire or try to hire" new personnel except through the Government. Maximum punishment for infractions: ?100 ($400) fine or three months in prison. Cooed Minister Isaacs: ". . . It will be necessary to force only a small minority to accept essential jobs against their will...
...gave us an enlarged industrial machine, great pent-up demand in the form of cold cash, but no new goods in the store. Living tastes and standards rose as many came to appreciate steak and an extra suit. With peace and reconversion, farmer, worker, and entrepreneur cemented their war-won gains of higher wages and profits, but the war-forged incentive to work hard and long naturally but unhappily vanished. The pot of gold seemed within easy reach...
...worker bee has a life span of only three months. But a queen bee lives for five-years-20 times as long. Biochemist Thomas S. Gardner of Nutley, NJ. thought that if he could find out how the queen does it, he might have a valuable clue to the secret of a long life...