Word: employables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hong Kong has had to make over its economy and has succeeded surprisingly well. Early Chinese refugees brought their money with them, and today operate many of the white factories and home-workshop networks that employ some 315,000 Hong Kong men and women. At first a hotel owner hesitated before renovating a wing or papering over the flaked walls of a grand ballroom, wondering whether there would be time to amortize his investment. A prospering Chinese plastics maker deliberated whether to plow back his profits into his business or to save the cash for a future flight. But increasingly...
...Times also stated that "we would not knowingly employ a Communist Party member in the news or editorial departments." As for former Communists, or employees who plead the Fifth Amendment "for reasons of their own," the Times said it would "judge each case on its own merits," taking into account the employee's job and how well he performs it. Said the Times: "We do not believe in the doctrine of irredeemable sin. We think it possible to atone through good performance for past error." At week's end, though the hearing transcript was still under scrutiny...
...Tokyo, City School Board Spokesman Masami Tsujita defended the board's disputed decision not to employ teachers under 5 ft. tall: "There are many difficulties involving teachers less than 5 ft. ... In outdoor activities it is difficult to locate her; in the classroom she will not be able to reach the top of the blackboard...
...took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ the union directly instead...
...Inland and its subsidiaries employ some 28,000 people. Its net income in the first nine months of 1955 was a record $36 million, $6.67 a share, compared with last year's $26 million and $5.25 a share on the smaller amount of stock then outstanding. Inland, which has paid dividends every year of its life except one (1933) last week declared a year-end dividend of $1.75 a common share, bringing 1955 payments to $4.25, or 50? more than...