Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat order he roped off the streets, built his boats on the pavement; to get huge Navy landing boats from...
Four years ago Lights, Inc. was doing an average $150,000 annual business; today it does $1,500,000 in a peak month. If it handled all that business under one roof, Lights would have to hire between 10,000 and 20,000 employes, would require between $5 and $10 million worth of unobtainable machinery. Instead it employs only 200 people, owns only about $15,000 worth of machinery. The rest of its work is farmed out-mostly to tiny firms...
...best pictures of the year and Alan Ladd is the whole show. Brian Donlevy and Veronica Lake turn in adequate performances, the plot is interesting if improbable, but Hollywood's best find in years makes the picture. Ladd isn't as tough as he was in "This Gun For Hire." He kicks and bruises where he once shot and killed. Occasional smiles and leers light up his former ominous dead-pan. But these little human touches only accent a character more sinister than Bogart at his best...
...Veronica Lake gets Donlevy to give her father political support in return for her smiles and wiles, but it takes him the whole picture to straighten things out. And in the end, with a little help from Veronica, he acts perfectly normal. The guy, who in "This Gun For Hire" didn't even crack a smile, smoulders when she turns on the heat...
...faced, bullnecked, roughshod William L. Ayers, managing editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 24,000), knew the time had come. Draft-stricken, he was going to have to hire women. He was going to have to hire women copyreaders...