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Word: employs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vultee and other plants employ Dorothy Dixes to watch over the girls and advise them on their emotional, marital and housekeeping problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Sex in the Factory | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Cargo Planes | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...except for the taking of the Mediterranean (which could be done at a stroke by depriving the British Fleet of its Egyptian bases) all this would take time-time to organize and employ greater armies than Germany now has on the south side of the Mediterranean. And time would give the United Nations opportunity to organize new resistance at the southern end of the Red Sea and the head of the Persian Gulf. At those two strategic gateways a fight can still be made, which, if successful, will still keep the Nazis and their allies, the Japanese, from joining hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: If Egypt Falls . . . | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...First essential for a company cafeteria is a well-trained dietitian. ("Very few" plants employ them.) Efficiency experts can determine the amounts of money spent in the cafeteria by each employe who lunches there; the dietitian, through shrewd marketing, can plan well-balanced menus within the price range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins in the Vittles | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...only things that delayed the bill were working details: whether the women should be part of the Army or separate, whether to limit enrollment, what to do about uniforms, age limits, ranks, pay. The Senate will probably pass the House bill this week, permitting the War Department to employ up to 150,000 "women of excellent character in good physical health, between the ages of 21 and 45 years and citizens of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: WAAC at Last | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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