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...situation will be appreciated when I tell you that not only is the operating theater in darkness, with the sterilizing apparatus out of use, but the labor ward is left without any light." Lucknow's Differin Hospital reported two nurses and one patient bitten by monkeys. A workman on the roof of a Lucknow locomotive workshop nearly fell off while wrestling with a monkey...
...ordered world. They are all intended to show that the imagination is that faculty in man which enables him to tailor facts after his heart's desire. The tailoring, however, is not to be done by mere wishful thinking, but by the bowing of the skilled workman over his fully apprehended...
...though not astounding, has been good. The Bay State holds the nation-wide record among industrial states for the least amount of time lost in strikes. Minimum wages were established for 50,000 women and minors employed in restaurants, 150,000 women office workers, and teachers. Benefits under the Workman's Compensation were increased, the waiting period under the Employment Security legislation has been reduced from two weeks to one, and its coverage has been extended. Admittedly, Putnam's labor record in Springfield, where he was endorsed by both the C.I.O. and A.F. of L., as a result of such...
...reflection of the times. In 1932 business was rotten: the U.S. had run out of things to hock. Now pawnshops-like the nation-are on a queer, priority-ridden, psychologically insecure spree. Despite typewriter freezing (which has stopped loans on a pawnshop specialty), despite the fact that no workman today would think of hocking his irreplaceable micrometers, calipers and toolbox, most U.S. pawnshops are in the money...
...Workers who move to new jobs pawn clothes, jewelry, watches, radios and cameras to get railway fare. When they get their first checks they redeem the goods by mail. A Los Angeles shop sent a radio on to a workman in Honolulu last week. Into one shop walked a carpenter who had borrowed $80 last year to get to a construction job in Alaska. He repaid his loan and gave the proprietor $1,400 in cash for safekeeping...