Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a proven industrial manager: Mathematical Physicist Charles Louis Critchfield, 49, Ohio-born research director of California's Atlas-building Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. McElroy and retiring ARPA Director Roy Johnson could not talk Critchfield, father of four, into taking the job until they offered to hire him as a WOC (without compensation), pay his expenses ($15 a day), and let him continue to draw his Convair salary of about $40,000 (instead...
...With an additional $10 million endowment in the offing (all earmarked for teachers' salaries), Northland faces an even rosier future. Says go-getting President Turbeville, who has turned down industry offers at more than double his $15,000 salary: "In ten years we'll be able to hire the best brains in the world. If they can teach, we'll pay them $25,000 yearly...
Both proposed a gradual reduction of the payroll through a "no-fire, no-hire" policy, although observers say that Powers might settle for a "no-fire, limited-hire" program. As employees drop from the payroll through death or resignation, the job simply will not be refilled. Obviously, exceptions are necessary: for indispensable officials, and for city departments that already operate on a relatively tight budget...
...this ambitious hope raises the question: does Powers have the political courage--or rather, strength--to stand against the demands of many pressure groups? Last year, Mayor Hynes approved a "white paper" which called for a no-fire, no-hire policy. It has been collecting dust in his desk drawer; due to political pressure, the experiment came to naught...
Thomas Alva Edison's pet hates were "small-brained" capitalists and "bulge-head" professors. He disliked capitalists because they never put enough money into his proliferating inventions, and professors because they ridiculed his nearly total ignorance of algebra. Said Edison: "I can hire mathematicians at $15 a week, but they can't hire...