Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Egypt's brash hero-for-hire has unshrewdly mortgaged the Arab world's future to the Russians, perhaps the most concise epilogue to the fateful transaction is A. E. Housman's lament on the demise of another imperceptive youth...
...increasing complexity of aeronautical equipment and the short age of technicians, the Air Force is convinced that it is nonetheless getting a bargain-even though private contracts often cost more than military work. The expensive alternative, the Air Force recognizes, would be to invest heavily in new maintenance plants, hire more civil-service employees. The Air Force can even save money 'by utilizing the prime contractors who are producing planes and missiles, are already tooled up to repair and overhaul the weapons. Lockheed Aircraft, for example, has set up a separate subsidiary just to handle maintenance and overhaul...
...military meteorologists shifted to other fields. The Weather Bureau was the only large employer, and although, under Francis W. Reichelderfer, it was considerably modernized, it still had few jobs. Hating to see his beloved science slump to its prewar level, Rossby tried to persuade private industry to hire meteorologists or to contract for special meteorological services. For a while he put his heart into this promotion effort, writing and even answering quite a lot of letters. An important step was to persuade the Weather Bureau to make its Teletype weather data available to qualified persons to interpret as they...
Individual departments, for instance, often hire students to do typing and research. Math, Physics, and Gen Ed courses offer many positions for student graders to relieve some of the pressure from busy professors and section men. Lab assistants are needed in most of the science courses. At the Observatory a small group of students--some under Government contract--does computing. "Animal men" are used in the biology and Psycho-Acoustic labs for the care and feeding of laboratory animals, while others are employed as electronics technicians to build and maintain amplifiers and other equipment...
...Office has always cooperated with the Summer Employment Bureau in seeing that needy students get interesting and profitable summer work. At present industries have for many years offered summer training jobs to juniors and seniors, in the hope of being able to hire them after graduation. Few companies, however, have offered jobs to freshmen and sophomores until this year. Yet the competition has become so intense in the search for qualified college graduates, particularly in the sciences, that many corporations are offering jobs to underclassmen to interest them in the training programs. Consequently the Summer Employment Office will this year...