Word: employable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some commentators, notably Walter Lippmann, were still debating which of several strategies the Allies would employ against the Jap. But it now became clear that all possible strategies could be used, all routes to Tokyo could be traversed. Said the conference's sole communiqué: the "barbarians of the Pacific" will be destroyed...
...Canadian Government was delighted. But it was less interested in the opening of new gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...
...Cooper, luckily, is well qualified to keep such comic material within range of masculine bearability. Miss Wright, unluckily, has little on which to employ her charm and talent. Frank Morgan and Patricia Collinge, in supporting roles, display a veteran's generosity with laughs, and Nunnally Johnson's script establishes him more solidly than ever as one of Hollywood's surest humorists. (Typical Johnson scene: a gruesome wedding rehearsal in a small-town church...
...will come nearer attaining full employment after the war if "a smaller proportion of Americans are engaged in manufacturing . . . and a larger proportion are engaged in the service industries." This advice was offered postwar planners by Author C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan in an article entitled "Factories Can't Employ Everybody," in the September Harper...
...there has been renewed circulation ... of stories that because of my former position as president [of G.E.] ... I am opposed to reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts. I am unwilling to do that. The dissension within the organization does harm to the war production effort. Therefore, I tender herewith my resignation...