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...Never during my time in the yard did I put in an honest day's work. I do not think I averaged one hour of labor for each shift of seven and a half hours. Some nights I was engaged usefully for no more than ten minutes." (His pay: $8.36 a day.) "One night, as quitting time neared, a group of perhaps 20 men had congregated . . . ready to make a dash for the gates when the whistle blew. All had stopped work about ten minutes earlier, and there were about three minutes to go. A foreman happened...
Workmen on the 8:30 a.m.-to-4:30 p.m. shift cheered, picked up their lunch pails, went home. Workmen on the next shift were already swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...
Russ Stannard '43, right tackle, is the most experienced man from tackle to tackle, having alternated with Tom Gardiner during the Yale game last year. Originally a guard, he can shift back if an adequate replacement comes up for his tackle post...
...problems like these bothered factory managers a year ago. But now, perhaps, a very shapely sweater girl wanders in to take her place in the swing shift. Low whistles follow her as she ambles down the aisle between machines. But a few minutes later a grey-haired factory chaperon catches her in the ladies' room. The chaperon is tactful (workers are hard to get). She admires the sweater girl's figure but says it would be a shame if because of her some man lost a hand under a punch press. Next night the girl comes back...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...