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...August 1941, Harry Schooler was working on Vega Aircraft's "swing shift" (4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.). He worked while most people played, and found amusement places closed when he came out to play. One night he rented the Burbank Elks' hall, gave an after-midnight dance (25? for men, women free). He played records for his fellow swing shifters and netted...
Lieutenant Lewis is familiar with the course here, as he experienced it himself last year. The shift of positions is expected to bring about greater cooperation between the M. I. T. and Harvard Schools because each Officer-in-Charge will have knowledge of the nature of the other school...
...Selective Service Bureau will shift state and local quotas in an attempt to induct all available non-fathers, wherever they may reside, before drafting of fathers begins. (But non-fathers with occupational deferments will not be taken...
...work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
Meanwhile the Aeronautical Mechanics' Union okayed an increase in the work day from eight to ten hours, but its membership voted it down. This jeopardized a stopgap measure Phil Johnson was promoting: a five-hour shift for housewives to cover the gap between two ten-hour shifts. Probability: Flying Fortress production will continue...