Word: employables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economic differences aggravate the irritation. Enterprising Hindus and Parsis almost monopolize banking, insurance, big business. Moslems, slower to welcome Western education, complain bitterly that Hindu factory owners rarely employ a Moslem clerk or foreman even when most workmen are Moslem. Moslems have a real fear that, in a unified India, Hindus would freeze them out of important posts in government and industry...
...hard bargain: it can break its lease without obligation in the event of labor trouble. Mike Demech, youthful (36), politically-minded (Republican) head of U.A.W.'s Local 18, went along, promptly signed a contract with Murray. In return, Murray will spend $1,500,000 on reconversion, eventually employ 4,000, boost Scranton's income by $8,000,000 a year. For a ghost town, Scranton looked like a pretty lively ghost...
Recommendations: 1) Substitute a Roman alphabet for the more than 50,000 Chinese-derived picture-characters of written Japanese. Though newspapers employ fewer than 4,500 characters, even educated Japs have to use dictionaries to understand them all, and uneducated Japs have trouble with anything more than the headlines (the average citizen of Tokyo knows 600 characters; the average rural Jap 325). Beginning Jap schoolchildren spend 17 out of 22 classroom hours a week in a struggle to master 1,356 characters-time, said the mission, "that might be devoted to the acquisition of . . . useful linguistic and numerical skills...
Even before Governor Thomas E. Dewey signed New York State's fair-employ ment-practices bill last March (to outlaw race discrimination in jobs), the good, grey New York Times had its eye out for a Negro reporter. Last week it had found one and was breaking...
...Prop. Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced that it will employ nearly 2,000 workers, in its $10 million plant in Philadelphia, making $10-$15 million worth a year of gas turbine aircraft engines, jet and propeller driven, mainly for the armed services. Said Spokesman George H. Woodward: "Such engines will rapidly become dominant in the high-powered and high-speed airplane fields, both military and commercial...