Word: employs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the young man was also going west. He was negotiating for a surplus aircraft plant at San Diego, where he plans to employ 3,000 people to make California sport clothes...
Sancho's Dinner. "Saw a book in Adams's, Half Hours With the Best Authors. . . . I would rather make my own selection. Such compilations may be serviceable to those that have access to few books, but to employ them in other cases is too much like Sancho's dinner of state: one gets what another's taste has provided, and but precious little of that. . . . Played a game of whist in Jenks's room this afternoon. . . . Did wrong: won't do it again in term-time. Not that I think card playing sinful...
...allow them to increase rents. And not only are their rents lower than current University ones, but they must also pay property taxes from which the University is free. And apartment upkeep expenses are higher than dormitory ones as the average apartment house is not large enough to employ its own staff or repair men but must pay more expensive outside help. Furthermore they must repair at no extra charge damages which, if they occurred in a College room, would invariably be passed on to the student occupant...
...Professor. His New York and Los Angeles studios alone employ 350 full-time instructors, 65% girls. (Among his pupils: John D. Rockefeller Jr., Bing Crosby, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.) Instructors are strictly forbidden to have off-hour dates with patrons. Murray pays them from $1.60 to $2.10 an hour, allows them $25 a month extra for clothes and $3 a week for meals, gives them free milk and vitamins and earthy advice (samples: "Your clothes will smell fresher if dry-cleaned regularly"; "Sitting down only enlarges the hips...
...Department and a crew of civilian historians in its employ are also at work on a final, integrated history of the Army's part in World War II. Probable date of publication...