Word: employed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from Michigan and Nebraska were able to see the other side,--the economic. And Henry Ford, above all others, stands for an economic preparedness. Mr. Ford has made innovations which bid fair to revolutionize all industry, one of which was the establishment of a profit-sharing plan for his employes involving a distribution of about $17,000,000 annually. He has also established a minimum wage of $5.00 a day throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many thousands...
...reduction in the total number of entrance examinations such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions of the text should be changed every few years...
...gained by its action on living tissues. The Equitable Life Insurance Company offers its policy holders an annual free physical examination; so, also, does a group of other life insurance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan, has many industrial risks. The holders of such are visited by nurses employed by the company in order to prevent sickness, and leaflets dealing with the preservation of health are furnished all policy holders. The Eastman Kodak Company has in its employ a trained bacteriologist, having found that some of the films were ruined, as it turned out, by the growth of low forms...
...captain is the more efficient director of the sport, it is absurd to employ a coach...
...Flemish pictures, and in 1896 he started a similar work on English art which was followed in 1900 by work in Spain. In 1910 he finished his commission on a series of French paintings. After an absence of twenty-seven years he returned to America, and still in the employ of the "Century" he began at once a new series known as "Masterpieces in American Galleries...