Word: employers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refurbishing 125 ancient trolleys, all of which have rusted in storage barns for at least five years. (Detroit is also the scene of an Alphonse & Gaston fight between bus lines and railroads over who is to service Henry Ford's vast Willow Run bomber plant, scheduled to employ 100.000 men 20 miles from town...
...auto workers it meant a layoff before arms production could employ them-and last week Detroit argued about how long that would be. "Several months to a year," said United Automobile Workers President R. J. Thomas...
General Motors expects to employ 450,000 persons (previous top: 303,000); Ford 200,000, including 25,000 women among the 100,000 employes of its bomber plant; Chrysler-130,000 compared to its previous high of 65.000. The correspondents wrote about production lines miles long. . . . Chrysler making at least $675,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and guns in 1942. . . . Ford with eleven miles of airplane runways at Willow Run . . . eleven miles of statistics which all boil down to the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most...
Most blessed of U.S. sights on his return: lights at night, the bellicose war spirit (he had been away since July 1938), newspapers containing news. "After foreign papers," says Allen, "you sort of forget there are papers with news in the headlines." He expects to employ his furlough eating "all the hot dogs and T-bone steaks I can find...
Taken at its face value, the Declaration was impressive. If the signing nations could actually employ their "full resources," their power would be staggering. Their combined populations came to almost 1,500,000,000 of the world's 2,145,000,000. They held twice as much of the world's steel capacity as the Axis, most of its wheat, most of the materials needed for making war or prospering in peace. But half of the nations were small, isolated, scattered from Costa Rica to Luxembourg. Eight of them had been overrun by the Axis. Two-China...