Word: employed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect these aims, the Act creates a Maritime Authority of five men to be appointed by the President for six years at $12,000 a year. Any shipping company seeking Government aid must agree to build its ships only in the U. S., employ only U. S. seamen, register only under the U. S. flag for 20 years, pay its executives no more than $25,000 a year. These conditions satisfied, the Authority will submit for bids the company's plans for new ships to U. S. shipyards, which in turn must agree to return to the Government profit...
...campaign to unionize the employes of the steel industry has been announced. . . . Persons and organizations not connected with the industry have taken charge of the campaign. There are many disturbing indications that the promoters of the campaign will employ coercion and intimidation of the employes in the industry, and foment strikes...
...conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
...railroad operators; the other, 20 of the 21 standard U. S. railroad unions. What President Roosevelt had asked for and what the two groups had after months of difficult negotiation given him was the first national agreement ever made in the U. S. governing the disposition of employes who lose their jobs or are otherwise adversely affected by technological improvements and increased efficiency in industry. Virtually all the nation's major railroads had agreed to pay financial compensation to all such employes in forth coming consolidations of railway terminals and other facilities. When Joseph B. Eastman became Federal Coordinator...
Blame? Unemployment today is, as commentators on the President's relief message hastened to point out, concentrated in the heavy industries, steel, building construction, etc. The failure of heavy industries to recover lost ground and thereby re-employ more men is blamed, in part at least, on the New Deal and its repressive policies toward Business. Administration critics last week were quick to contrast the President's exhortation to industry to absorb more unemployment with his latest tax message in which he recommended a penal levy on corporate surpluses...