Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dock-walloper-with the police ever tagging his footsteps. Danny's first job was arranged by Grace's new husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago...
...with good records; others seek to attract moonlighters by offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...
Others were quick to queue up. Jean Muir, also 30, bolted her stockroom job at London's Liberty's, moved in on the boom with a fanciful collection of narrow coats, smock dresses and knickers that nick off just above the knee. Sally Tuffin, 26, and Marion Foale, 25, the pop artists of the group, popped up with wild prints, impossible color combinations and a dress, called "Gruyere," with holes in its sleeves...
...employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
...join labor unions. In the board rooms and at the clubs, today's businessman finds it hard to get his mind-or his conversation-away from topic A: automation. Among automation's side products are 4,000.000 unemployed-5.7% of the labor force. Automated elevators, automated stockroom machinery, automated steel mills and countless other devices are turning the underskilled and the undereducated into unemployables. and sending their more gifted fellows job hunting...