Word: employers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other things, provide power for a string of greatly needed fertilizer factories. A lock system on the man-made lake will permit 10,000-ton steamers to sail from Shanghai to Chungking itself...
...Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists believes that its members can employ 16,000 disabled veterans for light, quiet work in greenhouses and showrooms...
...more than a year the Allies had hacked through the Burma jungles, around the swamps, over the roadless mountains. There were innumerable difficulties. The Japanese could employ small forces in the constricted battle areas to hold back larger forces. For most of the year the enemy had held almost all the all-season roads...
...Remedy? Said KSTP President Stanley E. Hubbard last week: "Petrillo has demonstrated to the world that he has more power [than the War Labor Board]. . . . We therefore have capitulated . . . to his demands that we employ men under contract regardless of whether or not we need them. . . . The remedy to this situation lies in the legislative branch of our government...
...right. The Tempest's producers must employ at least 16 musicians (its music is scored for twelve) at $92 instead of $65 a week-"or we'll close the show.'' Indignantly, the producers appealed to Petrillo, 802's national boss...