Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporting on U.S. Steel last week, Roger Blough calculated that "we have passed the low point. July will be the low month." Most businessmen agree that earnings should improve slightly, but there is bound to be cost cutting and perhaps price increases to help. The Government, they maintain, could help out too. Strong feeling is developing against the President's proposed surtax of 6% or higher on earnings, on the grounds that this is no time to take another bite where the fare has thinned...
...helping U.S. firms over such peaks, Kelly Girls and their competitors have built the "temporary help" business from its slender postwar beginnings into an industry with revenues of $500 million a year and a roster of some 1,250,000 part-time workers. The leaders got under way in the mid-1940s-Kelly Services Inc. in Detroit, Manpower Inc. in Milwaukee. Today they are both public companies, a far cry from the days when the industry really began to surge in the late 1950s, and the general expansion of U.S. business began to stretch the supply of skilled office workers...
...Fringes. The part-time business is going full blast because many corporations, squeezed by shortages of office workers and rising wages, are not even trying to keep full staffs at the typewriters. When the need arises, they happily pay a premium for part-time help. In New York, for example, a temporary-help supplier might pay a typist the going rate of $2.50 an hour, but the company she works for is billed for $3.30-a 30% markup...
...dealing in labor "systems." Tapping a work force of 130,000 through 276 offices in the U.S., the company provides teams for programming computers, can muster 50-man cadres for overnight inventories of department stores on a few hours' notice. Tellers trained in a special Kelly program help banks in 40 cities get through Monday and Friday rush hours. And an IBM 360 computer at Kelly's Detroit headquarters keeps track of a roster of Kelly technicians, including draftsmen and engineers, chemists and commercial artists...
...more intense dislocation, the last retreat of death-Bowles doesn't say. After several novels, books of stories and essays, he is still the inscrutable artist. He fixes his characters in his own hopeless wastelands and in the reader's shocked consciousness. His warped people are beyond help because they will not help themselves. They have surrendered, and Bowles, the devil's advocate, grinds them further into defeat. He is American fiction's leading specialist in melancholy and insensate violence...