Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization of scarcity"-not because of actual productive lack, but because the oldtime concept of thrift has been subverted into a modern concept of saving. He points out that investors, in their desire to save, have pushed far more money into capital markets since 1919 than business could profitably employ. Rather, they should buy goods and services. (An old Coyle saying: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain...
...Since 1930 airline mail-loads have increased over 100%, passenger-miles 500%, freight and express 1,600%. Airline employment has meanwhile increased 350%, from 3,400 to 12,000, may reach 25,000 by 1943. The industry as a whole can expect to employ at least 97,000, at most...
Everitt last spring threatened to renew his campaign this year to make Harvard the first university in the country to employ labor organized by a national union...
This week, tireless Butler Moody, well on his way to becoming a domestic tycoon, also announced in Staff that he would supervise a commercially-sponsored series of films in the interests of better living for the masses. The motto: "If you cannot afford to employ help in your own home, at least know how to do things right...
Finances. About 20 summer theatres, among them notably those at Westport, Skowhegan, Ogunquit, Dennis, Schenectady and Stockbridge turn in a regular profit. Most of the rest survive on subsidies from rich patrons, tuition fees from amateurs (who pay up to $600 apiece), or both. Summer theatres employed about 500 actors a week in 1934, 800 last year, expect to employ about 1,500 this season. Top salary for stars is about $750 a week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because...