Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economy-With Teeth. In the House, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, moved to give his committee sweeping powers to slice nonwar expenditures. He proposed that the committee have authority to issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify under oath, and to hire technical experts to sleuth through the budget. In a Congress bent on economy, his proposal seemed certain of approval...
...jobs, or the owners themselves find they can make more money in a shipyard. Already turnover in jobs is fantastically high, some stores reporting 40-50% as against a normal turnover of 10%. Only hope of maintaining sales staffs at all is to employ elderly and middle-aged saleswomen, hire students on part-time...
...Nelson gets a letter from John Doe in San Francisco asking for an appointment, D. & B. tells Mr. Nelson (in the short space of one hour, if need be) whether John is a substantial citizen or a time-wasting crackpot. When a new or expanding Federal agency has to hire a big staff in haste, D. & B. rechecks on its appointees at leisure. It checks up on the character as well as the financial status of war contractors for Government agencies handing out contracts, checks on new employes for a contractor faced with a sudden increase in his staff...
...compositor go to the Navy, an apprentice printer to the Army. The business manager and an advertising salesman are leaving for better-paying jobs. That will leave five in the back shop, including two green high-school boys, a bookkeeper and a society writer out front. Ceaseless attempts to hire new hands have produced not one nibble...
...didn't reveal the promiser, although suspicion pointed to several people of the sort that have the destiny of trees at their command. No one even knew who had sent for it, but it must have ben a potent promise. You have to be pretty sure of yourself to hire a truck...