Word: employables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even a battery of lawyers could make real sense out of the services' present scramble for missile power. For the time being, Charlie Wilson's ruling that any service may develop a missile, without thereby gaining the right to employ it. makes sense. But at best, the ruling is a holding action. It will do little to blow away Wilson's hurricane, or to guarantee that the nation will not be put upon by more service leaks, more public-relations displays, more martyred, parochial officers seeking out spokesmen in Congress or publishers of memoirs. As Ike Eisenhower...
...influx began about three years ago because of complementary conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The U.S., unbombed and eating well, produced bumper postwar harvests of singers, but had few opera houses in which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...
...will undertake almost anything dealing with technological research and development, including "serious exploration of outer space." Ford is putting an initial $10 million into the venture, plans to build a $13,500,000 research and development facility, probably in the Los Angeles area, to be completed in 1958 and employ 1,000 to 2,000. Absorption of Systems Research, composed mainly of scientists who quit the Lockheed missiles program in a policy squabble, gives Ford a readymade, topflight scientific team plus a batch of government contracts...
...India, A.I.M. noted, has a new law that requires any corporate director to get the shareholders', permission before the company may employ his relative...
...pushing live musicians elsewhere off their chairs at an increasing rate. TV is causing a further deterioration of the situation, since few of the 2,600 local TV stations in the U.S. try to compete with big network shows produced in New York and Los Angeles; most employ no musicians...