Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booth when the phone rang and a voice told him to go to another phone booth. There he found a typed note and a public locker key taped under the seat. In the locker at Portland's Union Station, he found a third note ordering him to hire a Yellow Cab (with no two-way radio) and drive on Highway 99E the 120 miles to Eugene, at 25 m.p.h. When a car behind flashed its lights three times, he was to throw out the suitcase and drive on five miles before turning back. If no headlight flashed...
...Dozens of public and private groups are already hard at work on the problem. President Eisenhower has set up a top-level committee to promote the hiring of physically or mentally handicapped. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is doling out $30 million in Government aid to state agencies to help put the handicapped in jobs. Overall, some 60,000 disabled workers found jobs in industry in 1954, and the U.S. Government estimates that the number will jump 200% by 1959. But this will tap only a fraction of the potential manpower. Many businessmen are frankly reluctant to hire the handicapped...
...program is designed to teach students the methods and principles of electronic computers at a time when the field is constantly expanding. "Industry, while it knows little about the underlying principles of controls, needs people trained in the field and will hire as many people as we can train as fast as we can train them," Minnick said...
...both. They could hardly have done more to lose passengers. Without exception, fare increases turned passengers away, and started a vicious circle. As more bus riders turned to private cars, city traffic jammed up tighter, buses moved more slowly. Slower speeds forced companies to buy more equipment and hire extra drivers to meet schedules; thus the transit companies them selves helped to make traffic still worse. (A Chicago cable car in the 1890s crossed the Loop only 50 seconds slower than a $20,000, 200-h.p. bus does today...
Traditionally, the librarianship is the office of a scholar. Administrators are his assistants, but administration is meticulously subordinated to the library as an instrument of scholarship and education. When administrative complications threatened the usefulness of the library, the solution has been to get more money, build new buildings, hire a large staff...