Word: workman
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...Miami Beach, a dearth of barbers forced many a soldier and workman to down an old masculine prejudice, sneak into a beauty shoppe, settle back to have his hair trimmed by a beautician...
Into the shiny new Los Angeles studio of the world's No. 1 dance teacher last week bustled a big brawny workman in his shirt sleeves. "I wanna learn to dance," he told the pretty girl at the desk. "Would you like to join one of the defense classes?" she asked. "Hell no! Don't you have any classes with society people?" he demanded, plunking down $100 for 20 lessons...
...Continental Motors does not give the men regular time off to smoke. The men crowd into lavatories, turn them into smoking rooms. "It's the damndest thing you ever saw," said one workman. "Often a man will spend 45 minutes in the toilet. Foremen just stay away, they don't dare do anything...
...tall, lumbering, grey-thatched man with a quizzical look and the three silver stars of a lieutenant general quietly strolls in. Quietly he walks up & down the production lines, looking hard, saying little. Sometimes he stops, shows a workman how to handle a tool more smoothly. Sometimes he reroutes a whole line. He leaves without fuss, flies on to the next plant, the thanks of production bosses ringing after...
...Last week, North American Aviation gave away $10,000 in war bonds for practicable production ideas. At the tiny Morey Machinery Co.'s New York City plant (machine tools), one workman figured out how to reduce a 50-minute operation to nine minutes...