Word: employable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your struggle for non-intervention entails also a willingness to make sacrifices--genuine sacrifices--in the fight to preserve and extend democracy at home. You should know that as you struggle for the real interests of your country, you must move in the teeth of an opposition that will employ the most invidious devices that selfish interest and muddled idealism can muster. Among other things the opposition will not hesitate to impute your actions to unpatriotic motives. But such a struggle as yours, properly conceived, means infinitely more than the easy gestures which your opponents are so eager to provide...
...Ohio, 75 in Oakland, Calif.), Cleveland Wrecking is having one of the big years of its career, can well look forward to salvage coups like its saving of 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much as $100,000 worth of equipment on a single job, including bulldozers, clam shell buckets, a two-ton steel weight swung from a boom to batter walls and floors. But peacetime wrecking technology is not subject to much change...
...been the modification of both nations' policies. England, owing to the increasing specialists in the social sciences, and the United States by broadening requirements, is attempting to get a higher type of administrator to handle the rapidly multiplying functions of the government. Since 1914 civil servants in Federal employ alone have risen from...
...acres, said that as an American he was proud of it, denied that it could be an issue of 1940's campaign. ("There is an important and vital issue, though, in whether the country will go ahead on the basis of free private enterprise, so that you can employ the power that is generated there to give employment to your people...
...communal autocracy is his Miami Beach. Shy, able, $10,000-a-year City Manager Clyde Renshaw tends to the mechanics of city government. John Levi and a close little sodality of realty operators, builders, bankers, other local businessmen tend to politics. They comprise, employ, or otherwise control most-of the voting population (4,043 in 1932; 8,552 in 1939). And they perforce are tolerant realists, balancing and catering to the wants of the 200,000 winterbirds who flit in and away, the small but growing number who choose to dwell in Miami Beach...