Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hire. In Glen Burnie, Md., Loren Staples, 4, watched film funnies on TV for a while, then hurried off to a bedroom, climbed a chair, got daddy's pistol and, returning to the TV show, pumped a .38-caliber slug into...
...regime has saved its greatest wrath for the Communists who put their loyalty to Hungary above party discipline and joined the rebellion. They have been purged, and some have been exiled to the hinterlands. The ironic result is that the regime has been forced to hire nonpolitical technical and professional men for the choice jobs formerly saved for party members. The purge brought at least one other improvement: an end to the tedious weekly Communist pep talks formerly required in every factory and business establishment. The party rank and file, presumably, is still too weak to be entrusted with propagandizing...
...reporter for the past year (TIME, July 8), will keep turning out the four-day-a-week Alsop column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, which sells it to 200 U.S. and foreign papers. He plans to write it from Washington five or six months a year and hire an assistant to write at least one capital column a week while he makes short Forays into other world news centers. The column, he cracked, will now "get all of one Alsop instead of halves...
...moviemakers to hold out, finally surrendered, sold its backlog of 750 pre-1948 films to TV. The price: a handsome $50 million. Soon to visit the televiewer at home, courtesy of Management Corp. of America (and numberless sponsors), are such Paramount standouts as Going My Way, This Gun for Hire, The Lost Weekend, all the Mae West films, the Hope-Crosby-Lamour "Road" shows; and Cecil B. de Mille's Cleopatra, Unconquered and Union Pacific...
...factory are actually taken apart at the building site and nailed together again. Some locals lay down a maximum daily quota of bricks, studs or square feet of surface for bricklayers, carpenters, painters. Specialization is carried to the point where a contractor on a small job may have to hire one pipe fitter to lay the pipe out and another to join...