Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construction workers dropped 10% to 20%. Truck drivers often draw eight hours' pay for a 5½-hour trip, simply because the trip once took eight hours. Grace Line needs only ten men on a conveyor, but is forced by the International Longshoremen's Association to hire 21, four of whom do nothing but take turns pressing a button...
Harvard acts as the largest single employer of students. Undergraduates work in the libraries, dining halls, or dormitories, or in more intellectual capacities as faculty assistants, translators, or laboratory technicians. In addition citizens in the Cambridge area hire many students to do odd jobs...
...French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
Spooks & Bugs. Many businessmen shy away from doing the dirty work, hire private eyes to do it for them. The pros easily ease through plant security by using the most hackneyed ruses: posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking executive journeys overseas on business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether...
Directly hit by the strike were London's influential weeklies. The liberal New Statesman got into hot water with its labor friends by printing in Dlisseldorf, but was back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...