Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only commercial pilots with instructor rating may give lessons for hire. Pilots who fail in flight tests must accumulate 15 additional hours flying time before presenting themselves for reexamination. No private pilot may ply for hire. Stunting near airways, airports or built-up areas is forbidden...
...Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000 a year (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante). As members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the 250 station representatives last week agreed in principle to President Weber's demands, offered to hire...
...times accepted Japanese strategy has been a knife-in-the-back thrust without warning, the Samurai-Admiral appeared almost a freak. To get to Nanking before the deadline he had set for its destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with a piece of chamois skin and a can opener, dashed on with his cargo of foreign devils bound for the scene...
...typesetters, electrotypers, seamstresses, milliners, typists, bookkeepers, accountants, machinists, painters, shoemakers, tailors. Testified deaf President Kenner: "As an employer, for the past 20 years, [I have] had occasion to utilize the services of hearing and deaf persons and found the latter equally satisfactory." He announced that the Federal Government will hire deaf operators of office machines, file clerks, copyists, typists...
...agree to, however, was the provision touching transmission of music to stations that do not employ musicians. It seemed to the radio people that they ought to be permitted to broadcast wherever and to whomever they pleased, that it was the musicians' job to get small stations to hire more men. Joseph Weber, knowing full well that they were attacking his most crucial demand, stood up bravely, sent many a radio representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor group in the country,* Weber's threat of a walk-out all over...