Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Saudi Arabia announced that its old rival, the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, has granted it permission to tap the Iraqi river Euphrates for drinking water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into...
...customary plant-by-plant settlement. In the dusty cement bag dumped on the negotiation tables by the union were demands for a 13?-an-hour increase (to $2.20), a 10% premium for Sunday work, four-week vacations after 30 years service, and a clause forbidding companies to hire outside service personnel when inside manpower is available...
...Hire & Fire. The ex-President savored every moment of the first walk-through rehearsal, insisted on explaining each small detail to the show's regulars, Joan Terrace, 9, of Brooklyn, Jimmy Walsh, 9, of Hillside, N.J., and their adult guide, lanky Sonny Fox, 32. When they came to photographs of military leaders who served under Truman, Fox pointed to the picture of Douglas MacArthur and said: "Sometimes you have to dismiss generals, don't you, Mr. Truman?" "Yep," agreed Truman. "You hire 'em and you fire 'em, just like any other business." The former President pointed...
...Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that Harriet was put into an insane asylum. New York in the '90s was no place...
Brower became vice president in 1940, one of several executive vice presidents in 1946. Along the way, he earned a reputation for the sardonic quip and an analytical approach to problems. Last week, Charlie Brower displayed both qualities. Said he: "Many of the people who wouldn't hire me at first are still here-and they still say they were right...