Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-22
ADiCfiOnaru
That's Full Of
Double Talk

ArHE that America has reached the Age of Super
| Specialization brought home to many reader
y recently when The American Weekly listed several
jobs among the 29744 classified Dictionary
Occupatonal Titles" published by the U. Department
Of Labor.
FUNNY as such titles as lobby hog bush monkey"
brater" "buof- e-woods and others appeared this
page nevertheless in Washington D. c. and throughout
the country hard working executives with little time for
huor keep job dictionary handy for referring to
many diversified defense projects
who has time to browse through It's pages the
job dictionary has its lighter moments explaining what
like much double talk Among the jobs listed,
Tor example is a green shaver While that could be a
youngster using his dads for the first time,
the lob dictionary explains it leather
manufacturing industry. Here are some others
An express omnibus doesn't mean a pretty fast means
Of automobile transportations really the name of
kitchen helper a hotel restaurant And while in the
kitchen, don't look around for husky bouncer when
"tn6cker down is mentioned That's misleading term
for dishwasher.
back driver sounds like mother law the family
car but really job the upholstery business And
a THUNDER isn't hitch-hiker, but chap who does
specialized lob in making wooden boxes knocker
doesn't criticize your automobile He's tank car repair
man in the building industry And hot car man has
nothing with stolen automobiles He's busy in the
production of coke and gas.
yanker isn't dentist. He works in a knit goods
factory doctor does not sick felnes He is
tractor Then there's the starch crab Instead
Of being food faddst however he's IN the confectionery
So, is the kiss mixer who probably must
lot of kidding because he sounds like an errng
husband.
inspects cloth the textile industry. The buffalo man
who sounds like hunter is in the business The
fast brim pouncer doesn't hat-check girl at
nightclub It's job in the hat and cap industry And
it is downright Disappointing too, to discover that
strpper isn't follower of the art of Gypsy Rose Lee but
a finsher
The dron machine operator sounds like a humorous
chap nothing funny making mattresses and
bed springs which his job Nor go to the wire
puller get help gaining political favor Being in
electrical contracting business that's far out of his
line spudder would be in peeing potatoes The latter
actually his living drilling wells
double scatter makes anyone think Of runabout or
a gent who has spent his life eating wisely but too
well Instead, it's particular kind of job at sewing
machine just as trolley operator doesn't mean street
motoman but lad who does the finishing and icing in
bakery The tack splitter ought to be in circus He
almost is as he hangs banners amusement parks The
eve bender however definitely circus freak for
he's engaged in iron and steel products work.
Readers Of the sports might think sack man is
baseball player but his real job is in products
plant bat boy doesn't see free games either as he's
busy making felt goods AS for skin bumper he isn't
hockey player a skier but sheet-metal worker.
There lot of rather sinister sounding titles too, in
job dictionary Take the slencer for example He
could be gangster who puts squealers the spot His
real Job however is mild by comparison he's in the
spray painting department automobile plant, The
faler might be member Of the underworld too
maybe specialist in short Instead he's the
finishing end in boot and shoe factory
Then there the lot chaser who instead OF running
looking for real estate clerk in the textile
dusry The squirrel man may sound like nut but he's
tree climber in the logging industry The sheetester
doesn't pull bedsheets apart If he does it's entirely
his own he's in the iron and steel industry
swing cook doesn't have 10 work 90 the strains Of
popular though his title sounds that way He's
really a relief cook stumper isn't one-legged
cIt-up country square dances He's the hat sizing
trade. a drummer is not employed in a swing band
b. ne q od-fashioned travelling salesman He's be
coal mine along with the boom who operates
a stripping shovel in a bituminous mine.
For real double talk title there's the backstrap
Jaeger and the hot beef cooler The former
a mill and the latter in the slauehterhouse Also
reminiscent Of double talk is the cup-cake Dagger who
works bakery the cold water lapper who labors
pre-shrnldng cloth the gommer who picks berries
ete who breaks horses, the not soft roll ryoutan
the meshng Of in automobiles and the shelf