Nevil Shute Quotes
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
Shute, Nevil. Ruined City. Cassell, 1938.
This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.
Actually, the proportion was not so well balanced. Americans were wanting more consumer goods and there was a shortage of labor in 1776. That shortage was particularly critical with various skilled craftsmen ranging from gunsmiths to experienced sailors; carpenters to surveyors. But there was also a shortage of unskilled workers, so Paine’s point was correct: Unemployment was not a problem in colonial America.
Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or fellow engineers that he was not a serious person or from potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
