Word: employables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production costs $125,000,000 a year, of which 64% is for salaries. Producers have $100,000,000 invested in studios and equipment, employ 28,000. Theatre investment is $1,800,000,000. Exhibitors pay $255,000,000 a year in rentals, employ 236,500. Yearly gross for 15,378 theatres in the U. S. is $750,000,000. The industry pays $100,000,000 a year in taxes, $77,000,000 for advertising. In the U. S. between 75% and 85% of adult cinemaddicts buy tickets between 7:30 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. Average daily attendance...
Design. Its purpose is to employ artist-draughtsmen to visit collections of U. S. antiquities, make careful drawings of furniture, chests, ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges. As last year, a sizeable section was set apart for the work of children in state-supported institutions. Some of their output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks...
...cope with this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...
...China goes to war with any country except Germany, the Reich will "employ its good offices" to enable China to import munitions...
...operatives are even bigger business in Britain, where about half the families are co-op members, and co-operative stores do about one-eighth of the total British retail business. As a whole the British co-operatives employ about 300,000 people, sell more than $1,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society, corresponding to Sweden's K. F., is the biggest distributing organization in the British Empire. It has a $700,000,000 bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with...