Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking stogie-puffing Finance Minister Kung announced no budget plans, admitting that China's Treasury is now plunging $10,000,000 further into the red every month. With China's biggest bankers in a towering rage and with Chinese soldiers always for hire cheap, scores of government officials decided that some sort of coup against Generalissimo Chiang might be attempted, hastily quit their offices and hid at home...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages...
...Harvard's adolescents, we certainly hope that Comptroller Endicott will find some place where these underprivileged youths may park their cars overnight, without fear of molestation by Cambridge's unthinking police force. To argue that a boy shouldn't have a car unless he can afford to hire a place to keep it is plainly ridiculous. He needs it in his studies, his athletics, and in the development of--shall we say?--the social graces. The idea that he should be treated like any other citizen is opposed to all the principles of American education. Like as not, if Harvard...
...last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes was able to make a big showing on public works. Of the $3,300,000,000 at his disposal, he had, within ten weeks, allocated about $1,400,000,000. But allocations hire no workers. Public agencies first have to sign loan agreements with the Government before they see a cent of cash. Then they have to survey their project again, advertise for bids, pick a contractor. The contractor, in turn, has to order his materials, assemble work crews. This routine explains why the flow of public works cash was still only...
...extension of the idea of not hurting our neighbors is recognized as no infringement of personal liberty. It is no more a restriction to tell a man that he must pay adequate wages than it is to tell him he must not hire child labor...