Word: employable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was the stable-name of the NDAC. The President had been greatly responsible for the confusion, although some of it was inherent in the size of the task and the nature of the problem. NDAC was a six-man, one-woman board charged with duties to buy, control, employ, arbitrate, stabilize, protect and manage national rearmament without ruining the country now or later. OPM has a simpler task: to produce arms. It has a simple creed: God help anyone who gets in the way of U. S. defense, or God help...
...feels the defense spur. Up to last September (when contracts were last broken down by factory areas) Southern mills had received $19,127,000 worth of orders from the Army and Navy, 40% of the total. With civilian consumption up as well, these mills will produce more goods and employ more workers this year than ever before in their history...
...anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed him from town to town. Once he even got away with a public burning of orthodox medical texts. Today Paracelsus is famed as the great-grandfather of chemotherapy, for he was the first to use chemicals in combating...
...Government hopes that unemployment will slide down to about 4,000,000 men by the end of 1941, that WPA's 1,600,000 may be nearly all absorbed in industry by mid-1942. But Mr. Roosevelt said flatly that "even with what we call 'full employment,' there will remain a large number of persons who cannot be adjusted to our industrial life. For this group the Government must provide work opportunities." Thus the President confessed his belief that WPA is incurably permanent, a fixed part of U. S. life; that there will always be obsolete, unemployable...
...since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come...