Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual meeting last week the U.S. Chamber of Commerce settled for a minimum of the American Dream: "fairly constant employment" after...
...Some 400-500 U-boats operating on a constant schedule...
...Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking...
...Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms which imply performing, indefinitely, costly services for the rest of the world and doing it for nothing." As the convention ended, the phrase resounding in most ears was neither Fairchild's nor Johnston's. It was Senator George's "fairly constant employment...
...terrain in Tunisia. The rubble slopes of the hills were covered now with thick green grass. The enemy here was well emplaced. And yet in a single day U.S. troops pushed forward five miles and stayed forward. After the fourth day of attack, the Axis troops, apparently broken by constant shelling, pulled back their lines. U.S. troops moved within ten miles of Mateur...