Word: employs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands were streaming in from some of the German's best divisions. There was a good chance the reeling Germans could not stop short of the hills below Avranches (their retreat was so speedy in the last 20 miles to Avranches that they had almost no time to employ their specialty: mine sowing...
...immediate strategy of the Norman campaign still pointed southeast from Caen. Beyond it was tank country. There Monty could employ bolder tactics, for which his fast-stepping Sherman and Cromwell tanks were designed...
...Allied airmen this confusion, plus the size of even the smaller claim, underlined the old puzzle of how the Luftwaffe manufactures its aces. Does it falsify the scores? Does it include planes destroyed on the ground? Does it employ tactics saving the sure "kill" for the top officers of the squadrons? Of one thing airmen were certain: very few men anywhere could stand the nervous strain of enough air battles for a bag of 177 or even 116 enemy craft...
World War I shattered this system, broke up the gold standard, left England burdened with debt. But the war also gave one man his supreme opportunity. Montagu Norman, descendant of three generations of bankers, veteran of the Boer War (wounded, D.S.O.), had entered the Bank's employ in 1907, fresh from an apprenticeship with Brown, Shipley...
...plants, G.M. plans to employ some 400,000 people v. its 1939 peak of 201,000. (It now employs 465,000 men & women.) G.M. distributors should further employ some 200,000 people v. 135,000-150,000 prewar...