Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Instead of running the girls out of town, San Antonio officials ask to see their health papers, pack them off to the clinic. The system is vastly different from the old European routine of slipshod examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even...
Serious indeed was the report by President Jack Tanner of the leftist Amalgamated Engineers Union. Of 31 plane plants recently surveyed, he said, only six were working on full schedule. Reasons: shortage of tools and materials, delays in contracts, slipshod planning by managers. Said Tanner...
There in a plenary session of the ruling Kuomintang the Generalissimo stood up and scolded his Party heartily for losing the confidence of the people, for doing a slipshod administrative job, for playing into Japan's hands...