Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hiring bosses on the piers. The hiring boss runs a dockside institution known as the "shape-up," a ragged morning muster of all the local union longshoremen who want to work. Since there are usually more men than jobs, the boss's power is absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies themselves. But he is actually the free & unhampered agent of the local I.L.A. czar...
Alpert stated that Harvard, as an average-sized college, has a potential of 4,000 pints. He pointed out that a large percentage of the Red Cross's demand would be met if even 20 colleges of similar size undertook a comparable campaign...
...Korea, President-elect Dwight Eisenhower is likely to demand the kind of precise, efficient briefing which General Eisenhower is accustomed to. In any current estimate of the situation, the field commanders are likely to present three possible courses of action...
...most famed Christian leaders, suggested that Muto try his hand at retranslating the Bible. He spent two years working from the Japanese version, checked with Greek, Latin and other texts. He plans to publish 10,000 copies of his edition each month, as long as there is a demand. The first run of 10,000 copies was sold out before publication...
...replace the reserve system Miss Porritt would let the books in demand go at 4:30, although they will remain on closed reserve during the day. If the books don't have to be handled twice to prepare the reserves, she believes, the problem of extra work will no longer exist...