Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentleman farmer," nor are any of the rest of my neighbors who are members of this farmers' protective association. We mostly put in more hours for less pay than do those we hire. We belong to the Associated Farmers so as to be united in the defense of our homes against known Communists and their dupes, who have threatened us and are still threatening us. We need this or a similar organization just as laboring men needed their unions-to protect ourselves against injustice. Not every labor leader is a paragon of justice, any more than every employer...
...money to confuse the people. They have things in such a mess now that only a wizard can solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little or no paper money . . . and we would...
...trucking industry grew too fast for its britches, is now a gangling, sprawling adolescent given to waste motions and tripping over its own feet. The U. S. has some 600,000 trucks operating for hire. Two-thirds of the owners are one-man, one-truck outfits started on a shoestring and lucky to have it left. About 60% of the firms take in less than $2,000 a year; an alarming number of them go broke...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...
...average Mexican budget of $25,000 to $30,000 for a feature. Favorites such as the three Soler brothers (Fernando, Domingo and Julian), Joaquín Pardave, "Caninflas" (Mario Moreno) consider themselves well-paid at $2,000 a picture. When a producer is ready to shoot he can hire a complete crew from the CTM union on a contract calling for 50% of the minimum union salaries to be paid during production, the remainder after distribution. In addition, the crew gets 33% of the net profits. The films almost bank themselves...