Word: employables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the undenominational Chicago weekly: ". . . there is more sincerity in a cry to God out of the depths from one who has felt all the billows of disaster go over him . . . than in the routine pieties of many who habitually employ the standard forms of petition but have no actual sense of need. So there should be no cynical discounting of the reality of the religious experience of those men in foxholes, where 'there are no atheists,' or those castaways on rubber rafts who 'thought they heard the angels sing,' or those navigators of shell-swept...
...eight years, has led other mass movements in business. But none has approached the size of C.E.D.'s job. C.E.D. is working on the assumption that private industry can and must produce 40% more goods and services after the war than it did in 1940, and thereby employ at least 20% more workers than in that fat year...
...Plan. The Hoffman-C.E.D. idea is to start at the grass roots of private enterprise-with the nation's 2,000,000 employers (90% of whom employ less than, eight men)-and see what can be done about arranging for this production and this employment. If enough businessmen will do their smart part, the sum total may equal the beyond-the-horizon frontier toward which U.S. hopes are directed...
...were gainfully engaged-in & out of Government-in turning out $98 billions of goods and services. Today there are some 62,000,000 and the gross national product is around $150 billions a year. After the war, even assuming that the Services, Government and large-scale public works can employ as many as 8,000,000 men (and that some 4,000,000 men & women stop working), U.S. private industry, including agriculture, will have to find useful jobs for some 50,000,000 men & women, to avoid "intolerable" unemployment. The postwar breadline...
...going to have enough jobs after the war to employ 10,000,000 returning soldiers and sailors, 5,000,000 new civilian workers...