Word: employed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edsel Ford dug the first turf last week for a new Ford plant in Degenham, Essex, England. So manfully dug he that he bent his silver spade. The factory, to be finished in less than three years, will employ 15,000, make 300,000 Fords yearly...
...shall employ a double-track system, each track in a separate tunnel," said Don Luis. "Then there will be no possibility of a complete tie-up of the service, even should a train be wrecked...
...Herald and Express} and Waterville (the Sentinel} dominate. Working quietly as always, Mr. Insull intrenched himself early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form the New England Power Association and other companies, to employ such brains as Graustein of Graustark to fight Invader Insull and mine New England's White Gold themselves. Hydroelectric Minute Men, they set out to meet Mr. Insull with his own weapons. He had newspapers. They acquired the Herald and Traveler...
...Writer Shaw's courage (TIME, March 11) said: "The husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment 'because the inventor was both an American and a Jew.' His courage was such that his insinuations−although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians−were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
...promising to "Hang the Kaiser"-placed on sale at sixpence (12?) a pamphlet called We Can Conquer Unemployment! Soon he jubilantly announced that "the first edition has sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet confidently predicts-will result from "restoration of our trade relations with Russia...