Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without warning Assistant Secretaries Louis Arthur Johnson (War) and Charles Edison (Navy) suddenly announced the creation of a civilian advisory committee to work with the joint Army & Navy Munitions Board. Its personnel: Able Edward R. Stettinius Jr., young (38) whitehaired chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings...
Wartime emergencies have worked a near revolution in the position of Japanese married women. Traditionally homebodies who brewed tea and arranged flowers, they have found to their surprise and delight that they can walk in the streets unashamed, can even do men's work...
...long but never spectacular career as politician and financial manipulator under successive North China regimes. Decrepit at 60, he looks as if he had been made of cheap Japanese materials. For some time he has wanted desperately to resign. For several weeks he has refused even to pretend to work. But puppets do not resign; a string is pulled and they disappear. Last week the Northern Wang, jealous of the Southern Wang, whose super-puppet regime would eclipse his, was reported "in retirement" in the gorgeous Summer Palace of the C'hing Emperors...
...provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner's cabin. Because in many villages houses are crowded close together, this stipulation could not always be followed, and the private plots in many cases were well away from the village, scattered around the collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into...
Most of Cue's editors have a little money in the magazine, a little more money of their own, work for salaries averaging around $75 a week. They pride themselves on being sportsmen, compete madly at tennis, squash, billiards, chess. President Keep's dream: a gymnasium for Cue, where every male of his 80 employes would be compelled to take at least one hour's exercise every day. One of Cue's female employes describes the organization as "a casual kind of place, so friendly and full of gentlemen...