Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Taylor's present assertion that she is not so much a "law-enforcing as a protective and preventive agent--a social worker in the police department," is the characteristic attitude of the entire bureau, whose function, according to Lieutenant Thomas J. Stokes, Bureau chief, "is to correct by adjustment...
Professor Richards was a co-worker of C. K. Ogden, inventor of Basic English, during the early stages of the development of the language introduced in 1930. Since he arrived here in 1939, Richards' work in Basic has been directed to teachers of English in foreign countries and American instructors working with children who have difficulty in reading...
...power was exhausted. A British miner produced less than a third as much as a U.S. miner. The reasons why he would not greatly improve his rate of productivity were partly technical and geological; more importantly, they were social and political. The British miner and his fellow, the factory worker (and their bosses), were not looking ahead with much hope. The Government, on which workers and bosses had leaned more & more heavily in recent decades, was dedicated to planning. But because it would not or could not enforce its plans upon labor (a la Moscow), the planning was unreal...
...Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in a straight-faced cable, Middleton described Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed that workers of various heights stood on small steps before their machines; some had to bend, while others stood on tiptoe. "After thinking awhile, Mr. Matrosov figured out that the height of the steps could be adjusted to the height...
Shinwell was hit by blasts from the Laborite press, as well as by demands to resign in the Conservative papers. He had only one press defender: London's Communist Daily Worker (it blamed the Tories). London's Daily Herald, staunch friend of the Labor Government, severely took the Cabinet to task for failing to keep the public informed of the developing crisis. Said the Herald...