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September 12, 1944
Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
What is this article about?
Practical advice on exercises and tips to relieve overworked hands for typists, riveters, and draftsmen, including contributions from Shirley Taylor at Westinghouse in Bloomfield, NJ.
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These Exercises Help Tired Hands
By ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer
To thump a typewriter with more accuracy, drive rivets home with more trigger quickness, guide a draftsman's tools with more unerring skill, take time out to relax cramped or overworked fingers.
Limbering up exercises?
Drop arms as limply as a rag doll's to your sides. With a vigorous shake of each wrist, let fingers fly. Then, clench and unclench your hands.
Facile-fingered Shirley Taylor—from her pencil come blueprints for Westinghouse's electronic tubes for war at Bloomfield, New Jersey—passes on these exercises, gives other tips for hard-working hands.
To ease out pencil-clutching cramps Shirley soothes hands with a semi-liquid hand cream, poured from a desk-drawer bottle. She has discovered that her shell pink cream will "wash" off ink and grime in between trips to the basin and, as she proudly says, "keeps a gal draftsman's hands looking as smooth as silk."
By ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer
To thump a typewriter with more accuracy, drive rivets home with more trigger quickness, guide a draftsman's tools with more unerring skill, take time out to relax cramped or overworked fingers.
Limbering up exercises?
Drop arms as limply as a rag doll's to your sides. With a vigorous shake of each wrist, let fingers fly. Then, clench and unclench your hands.
Facile-fingered Shirley Taylor—from her pencil come blueprints for Westinghouse's electronic tubes for war at Bloomfield, New Jersey—passes on these exercises, gives other tips for hard-working hands.
To ease out pencil-clutching cramps Shirley soothes hands with a semi-liquid hand cream, poured from a desk-drawer bottle. She has discovered that her shell pink cream will "wash" off ink and grime in between trips to the basin and, as she proudly says, "keeps a gal draftsman's hands looking as smooth as silk."
What sub-type of article is it?
Instructional Article
Health Tips
What themes does it cover?
Recovery
What keywords are associated?
Hand Exercises
Tired Hands
Draftsman Tips
Hand Cream
Westinghouse
What entities or persons were involved?
Shirley Taylor
Alicia Hart
Where did it happen?
Bloomfield, New Jersey
Story Details
Key Persons
Shirley Taylor
Alicia Hart
Location
Bloomfield, New Jersey
Story Details
Article describes exercises to relax cramped fingers for workers like typists, riveters, and draftsmen. Shirley Taylor, a draftsman at Westinghouse, shares wrist shakes, clenching fists, and using hand cream to soothe hands and remove ink.