Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXECUTIVE JOB OPENINGS have shown big rise in past few months, report top recruiting agencies in major cities. Companies are beginning to hire again in high brackets...
...village and to vegetate the countryside with 4,000 bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships-a flotilla only slightly smaller than the Norwegian battle fleet; to man his foredecks with such well-known Scandinavians as Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; and to hire, as the big name for his billboard, Actor Kirk Douglas...
...gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline S. F. Porter, and did not let her affirm her sex until 1942, when S. F. was changed to Sylvia...
Sullivan gave the Canadian caperers a wide measure of autonomy. They may, and do, write their own classically zany material, hire their own supporting casts, ignore all advice except Sullivan's infrequent suggestions...
Henry gets an offer of ?100,000 for the Northern Light from a wicked, sensation-mongering London press lord. When he refuses, the villainous Londoners go to work on him. They bring in their own paper, hire away Henry's old employees, grab his old advertisers, buy the very building he prints in. They even gull his giddy daughter into an interview in which she announces her admiration for their paper. Poor Henry is brought to his knees, and to bringing out the Northern Light by duplicating machine. That starts rallying British readers to the underdog...