Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aluminum castings a week for Army Signal Corps and aircraft companies. Last week he completed his jump from basement to big time. To his company went a $1,010,000 British order for oxygen regulators for fighting planes. Scott will get most of the parts from subcontractors, will hire 50 new workers to assemble them in a new $20,000 plant...
...without industrial and financial background, and inclined to rigidity of mind, but active; and Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas, who was tough and fast but too skeptical of U.S. businessmen's abilities, and who would not consider a top defense job unless he had absolute power to hire & fire. The President, who loves to hire but hates to fire, dislikes giving his top officers such absolute power...
...practically the sole purchaser, he said: "Under such conditions there is no basis for large profits to private interests. The furnishing of management skill and services is all there is left. There is a question whether, at least as to one or more plants, the Government should not hire the necessary personnel on a salaried basis...
...billion worth of exporting and importing each year since World War I, it has developed at least the nucleus of a new professional class. With the U.S. on the threshold of waging economic war on many fronts (see p. 69), professionals are needed. It is no longer possible to hire Britons. The men at last week's little reunion knew all this. Through their talk ran speculation about when and where they would be called...
What are we farmers going to do without any help? And at my age of 75 and the Government taking my man who has been here a great many years? I am left alone and cannot hire a man at any price for they are not to be had. It simply means that I will have to sell all cattle and personal property and let the farm lay idle...