Word: employs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S issue of Aug. 21, a person signing herself Alma Jacobsen has a tirade against employers of so-called help. Why doesn't the dis- gruntled lady go back to the old country where she might find things more to her liking? My experience with the last three maids I had was-- one of them proved a bad character-two of them were thieves-all of them were so filthy in their rooms, that they had to be painted, papered and cleaned after they left. I always have treated my help as I would wish...
...whole job would require about four years, directly employ about 4,000 men. The Port Authority, operator of the present Holland Tube, got $10,000,000 in quick cash to order 50,000 tons of cast iron tunnel segments, 2,000 tons of special tunnel nuts and bolts...
Other large public works allocations of last week: $70.000,000 for 90 river & harbor projects (commonly called "pork") to re-employ 40,000 men; $36,986,956 for flood control on the lower Mississippi River to re-employ 34,000 men; $15,415,000 for 14 irrigation projects in eight western states; $13,600,000 for navy yard improvements...
...Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour week would not help to re-employ 150,000 jobless steel workers, that...
...direct hundreds of camps in reforestation operations to employ more than 250,000 young...