Word: scrubmen
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...spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still the Geiger counters sang...
Harvard settled the troublesome problem of its scrubwomen's low pay several years ago by employing scrubmen at low pay. Last week, however, the university was negotiating with the A. F. of L., which was organizing kitchen workers, scrubmen, maids. Yale, meanwhile, had its hands full of C.I.O...