Word: employer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library is run on the honor system. Duplicate slips cannot be checked, and Miss Porrit told the Council that the library cannot employ an extra person to do this...
...every 100 of these families who read TIME'S Pacific Edition, 43 own their own homes, 76 have telephones, 70 have electric or gas refrigerators and 63 employ one or more servants. There are 109 autos, 27 pianos, 45 electric washing machines among each 100 TiME-read-ing families; 39 of the families have one or more dogs, and six have either a yacht or a motor boat...
...Kansas started a plan to re-employ teachers who had quit or retired, in 1951 succeeded in recruiting 400. Montgomery County, Md. has a special twelve-week refresher course in education for the same purpose, has so far been able to reclaim between 50 and 87 good teachers a year...
...Benson plan requires that the states pay a large share of their conservation expenses; this means that poor but deeply eroded states like Arkansas will falter in land-saving measures. Threats of floods encompassing entire river-valleys will find separate state conservation agencies powerless to employ the control measures which formerly the Soil Conservation Service would use as a matter of course...
...railroads were driven into Hamburg's ruins to cart out the rubble; at the peak one train ran every ten minutes, loaded with 4,000 tons of scrap steel and mortar. Hamburg rebuilt faster than any other city in Germany: 130.000 homes. 52 schools, enough new jobs to employ 65,000 more workers than prewar. Shipping shot back to 70% of normal, production rose 6% over 1936. Back to its prewar population of 1,600,000, Hamburg once more became West Germany's biggest city...