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...threw this argument down. Then Ed Rainbow protested that the shipyards had no ladies' rooms. Shipyard wags began quipping about "Rainbow Rooms.'' Last week 22 women bounced into the union hiring hall, yipping for work, determined not to take no for an answer. Ed Rainbow got rid of them this time by explaining that the union was holding a national referendum on admitting women members. But at week's end it looked as if he could not hold the fort much longer...
...body's tissues. The pressure of tight shoes cuts down circulation to irritated areas, deprives them of adequate vitamin A and produces corns-even though the body as a whole may not be A-deficient. Dr. Straumfjord has found that large doses of vitamin A usually get rid of corns even though shoe irritation remains. Results sometimes appear within a few weeks, more often it takes several months or even two or three years...
Taylor's departure left a big unfilled niche in WPB, but it pointed up the problem, made it more imperative than ever for Donald Nelson to act as tough as he was now talking, to get rid of well-intentioned but inadequate subordinates and replace them with tough, efficient...
Philosopher Joad lapsed into agnosticism 30 years ago when, like many another sensitive intellectual, he "could not reconcile the existence of pain and evil with the Christian hypothesis." Like many another intellectual Dr. Joad felt that the greatest evils were social evils; rid the world of these and you get rid of most others. Social evils, he decided, were "the by-products of economic circumstances. . . . The inference was obvious: remove the circumstance . . . and you would abolish the byproduct evil." Now, like many another contrite intellectual, Dr. Joad can no longer believe this because "the evil in the world today...
...bull's-eye in the fight between military and civilian (TiME, Aug. 3). Swarthy, cocky Joe Weiner, to whom all Washington officials, generals and admirals look alike, would have been fired long ago for speaking out of turn-but he has been too valuable to get rid...