Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buyers live at a phenomenally fast pace, performing a dynamic and fascinating function. The starting pay is low, and the training period is tedious, but 18 months will make a man an assistant buyer, and sometimes another 18 months make him a full buyer. With companies hiring one buyer for every 50 employees, advancement is rapid...
Stores currently follow one of two dif- ferent schools of thought on the function of a buyer, but the tendency seems to be toward turning the buying job into that of a department, manager...
Major stumbling-blocks to men entering retailing are the tough training programs. College graduates recoil at the prospect of six to 18 more months of detailed training during which time they will perform no responsible function, but even business school graduates are required to submit to the technical merchandising instruction...
Under North Carolina's ailing Democratic Representative Carl Durham, who was McMahon's vice chairman, the committee has tried to function on a tentative basis; but Government agencies, which have worked closely with the chairman in the past, now have no key man to contact. Members, fearful that they might tip the chairmanship stalemate the wrong way, have been clam-quiet on some important issues, e.g., the Navy's failure to promote Captain Hyman G. Rickover, the atomic-submarine expert...
...committee practice of holding first an executive session and then a public hear in gin which the witness must state his address so that he can be subjected to community pressure; by Congressman Velde's statement that while the Jenner committee is investigating Communism, his committee's function is to express the individual Communists on the campuses, and by the House Un-American Activities Committee's self-description in its 1948 Interim Report: "It functions to permit the greatest court in the world--the court of American public opinion--to have an undirected, uncensored and unprejudiced opportunity to render...