Word: employables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
...cope with the new money, grocery-men employ various devices: in Los Angeles a small store uses a cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented...
...joint declaration by the United Nations, which was dated Jan. 1, 1942 at Washington, been rescinded by its signers, which included all nations now fighting the Axis? Or do their pledges mutually to employ their full resources, both military and economic, against members of the Tripartite Pact and not to make a separate peace mean nothing...
There have been women Marines before. In World War I the Corps enlisted 305 (but commissioned no officers), winced when the U.S. public called them "Marinettes." This time the Marine Corps, planning to employ women as stenographers, parachute riggers, radio workers, telephone operators and other behind-the-line jobs, wanted no nickname for its new recruits-not even leatherneck...
Occasioned by wartime conditions, and aimed against labor hoarding by corporations, Walter Reuther's suggestions may be a foretaste of many a labor proposal for maintaining full employment in peace. They likewise suggest many a problem. If pressure is applied against part-time employment, will not some men lose their jobs altogether? If firms are ordered to employ a given number of men on full-time pay, who is to decide when a firm should cut its production, or go out of business? Finally, can Government dictate employment short of full socialization...