Sees that Uncle Sam gets value in purchases. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. Miss Mary L. Rollins is responsible for seeing that the government gets value received for every dollar expended for paper and materials containing textile fibers. As fiber technologist of the National Bureau of Standards, she

Uncle Sam's color expert. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Miss Dorothy Nickerson is one person who can't afford to go color-blind. She is the color analyst of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and measures color as a means of grading and standardizing many agricultural products such as cotton, hay, fru

Checks railroad signal glasses for government. Washington, D.C., Sept. 29. Red should be read and orange should be orange and never should the colors in railroad signal glasses be so near alike as to confuse a trainman. The Government, through Mrs. Geraldine W. Haupt, Color Expert of the National Bu

Interesting job with Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Oct. 13. One volt after another is all in the day's work for Mrs. L.H. Brickwedde, who is a battery expert for the National Bureau of Standards. Using a potentiometer - or in other words, a standard cell comparator - Miss Brickwedde is shown calibrat

U.S. census expert finds out ages of persons whose births have not been registered. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Statistical data might be dry for most persons but Miss Mary C. Oursler, Official Custodian of Census Records, U.S. Census Bureau, finds it the spice of her job. She is an expert at discove

Color expert for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., June 20. When it was discovered that color plays an important role in marketing of cotton, Miss Dorothy Nickerson, Color Technologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed a method for measuring the color of raw cotton mechanically. The equi

Responsible for Uncle Sam's stamp collection. Washington, D.C., March 16. As Head of the State Exhibition Room of the U.S. Post Office Department, Miss Alice Caruthers is responsible for over half-million dollars of stamps on display for the public. Stamps of every denomination from the first issue

U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to i

Last of the N.R.A. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Mrs. Mildred S. Steinmetz, who started in 1933 as Filing Department Chief with 135 assistants, is now the sole chief of the defunct National Recovery Administration. In comparison to 5400 employees on NRW payroll at one time, Miss Steinmetz has to get al