Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolished the four-man State Highway Commission. In New Jersey, as in Georgia (see col. 2) and many another State, highway boards mean patronage and votes to politicians. It had not cut the State's production of more teachers than it could employ. It had not plugged up exemption leaks in the gasoline tax. It had not boosted the license fees for trucks. It had not adopted a pay-as-you-go road building program...
...fight on Dollfuss," read Austrians who picked up these leaflets, "will assume whatever form and employ whatever weapons deemed necessary to achieve the goal...
...Nazi ministers tackled the Servant Problem in this wise: Heads of families who employ domestic servants may count them as dependent minors on income tax returns. Cooks and chambermaids will pay lower taxes than girls in shops and factories...
Deals. But after the partners have invested their depositors' money in safe and liquid securities, they have still their capital (net worth) which they can employ in deals. The capital of the House of Morgan amounts to less than $100,000,000 (it passed that mark in 1929, was $119,000,000 at the close of that year, stood at $53,000,000 at the close of 1932). Morgan deals are of two kinds...
...Conrad Aiken's prose-people are shadowy, unsubstantial; but in the hero of Great Circle he has concentrated such emotion that the other characters seem temporarily real enough. Written with more ability than most U. S. prosemen can command, with more care than most would be bothered to employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge...