Word: employs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fireside Chats. At the White House that afternoon President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill renewed their conferences. First upshot: 26 nations of the New and Old Worlds formally pledged themselves to employ their full resources against the Axis powers and to enter into no separate armistice or peace...
Direct war industries, figures OPM, now employ 4,000,000 workers, by June will employ 6,000,000, by June 1943, 9,000,000. Of these, only 25% can be unskilled. So serious was the skill shortage in machine tools that Ford Hinrichs, acting chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began talking about the need for "organized piracy" -i.e., a sort of priority on skills (he did not say labor conscription...
...event of a bombing raid on Boston or Cambridge the Red Cross regulars would be so busy caring for the wounded and homeless that they would have to employ volunteer telephone operators at their switchboards. It will be necessary to begin training a corps of skilled men for this job immediately...
...Wiegers, son-in-law of Bernarr Macfadden and Macfadden Publications chief of promotion-publicity was indicted for criminal conspiracy on charges of using a dictagraph to steal trade secrets. Most embarrassed U.S. publisher was Macfadden Publications (True Story, et al.), which last February ousted Bernarr Macfadden, promised to employ "new policies" after cleaning up a big watered-circulation scandal (TIME...
...sheriff used to have a rescue unit of 25 station wagons, assembled under the direction of Cinemactor Lewis (Judge Hardy) Stone, but the unit has now been absorbed in the State Home Guard. If the regular telephone service is cut off, the Defense Council can employ two shortwave radio channels, a statewide teletype hookup, U.S. Forest Service lines, a private outlet of the Southern California Edison Co., five other wires that are kept secret...