Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief advisers and against the pressures of those who hold that the United States could and should recapture the China mainland for the Chinese Nationalist Government. But [we] are deeply troubled by Mr. Dulles' speech in which he warned that under certain circumstances the U.S. would employ military force to defend Quemoy and Matsu...
...total area smaller than California-a mere 17% is arable. Dirt is so precious that graves are limited to two square feet (cremation is almost universal in Japan). Factories, and the machines in them, are in advanced obsolescence. There are not enough jobs, though many tasks are featherbedded to employ two craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do. Costs and wages have gone up so much that Japan is no longer able to undersell everyone else in the world market. Eager British, German and other traders have invaded old Japanese markets. Some of the old customers-Indonesia...
What about the overall effects of automation? In the past 15 years, said Fairless, the U.S. population has jumped 22%, while the number of jobs has grown by 35%. "And in the field of manufacturing itself-where automation has advanced most rapidly-employment has gone up 73% ... The record clearly shows that this rapid increase in employment has occurred chiefly because of mechanization, not in spite of it. The building of machines themselves-plus their installation, maintenance and the construction of new factories to house them-has opened up thousands of job opportunities that never existed before ... As mechanization...
...taken the U.S. a long time to realize the nature of this problem. In the early days of the New Deal, Paul Appleby, then an Agriculture Department official* and a pundit among public administrators, said: "A man in the employ of the Government had just as much right to be a member of the Communist Party as he has to be a member of the Democratic or Republican Party." This attitude, modified and veiled, still persists. At the opposite extreme is the view that since Government employment is a privilege and not a right any employee may be fired...
...private employer, particularly one largely engaged in supplying manufactured products to the Government, to its armed forces, and to retailers for distribution through hospitals and doctors to the public at large, should not be required by state action through its courts to retain in or restore to employment a person who would not be entitled to state employment and who is known to have dedicated herself to the service of a foreign power . . . The employer had not only the right to protect itself and its customers against the clear and present danger of continuing a Communist Party member...