Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoulder to Shoulder. Harvester was careful not to ram nondiscrimination down Southern throats without warning. Scouts were sent to each city well in advance to place newspaper ads explaining company policy, to talk to civic groups and city officials. When the time came to hire, interviewers were on hand to explain exactly what the company meant. "Every white applicant," says a Harvester official, "was very clearly told that we did not discriminate and that he might find himself working beside a Negro. If he didn't like it, then it was no place for him to come to work...
...University have agreed seems a fair one, Rumors of mass, indiscriminate firings are just so much hogwash. Of the two hundred or so maids now in the Houses, only about fifty will be laid off. Chosen because of their lack of seniority, most of this group were hired only last fall. And because they will be forced to leave their old jobs, the University has offered them preference should they want to apply for work in the College dining halls. Outside of this group, there will be no layoffs. About fifty maids usually quit each year; the College will simply...
...question: Whose business is it to provide jobs? Why should Smith provide Jones with a job? . . . We need job-providers all right, but no person nor group of persons is obligated to become a job-provider. There must be an incentive for anyone to set up a business and hire helpers, and thereby provide jobs. However, the ability to establish and manage a business successfully is limited to a comparatively few persons-less than 10% of our total population-hence job-providers must have an adequate incentive for taking the risk involved in setting up a business...
...prelude to their vaunted classless society, the Peking Reds have tried to put peasants into a set of strict classes: landlords, who own land but do not work it; rich peasants, who own land or rent it from landlords, but work it themselves and hire others to help them; middle peasants, who may own or rent as much land as the rich peasants, but work it entirely themselves; poor peasants, who may own land, but do not own the tools or animals to work it; hired peasants, who own nothing, work for others...
...little later KGO was asked to fill an empty Sunday night half hour "for a Pacific feed" (all West Coast ABC stations). Breen, who was fascinated by San Francisco's Embarcadero, put together a hard-boiled private-eye show about waterfront crime, called it Pat Novak for Hire. Webb was Pat Novak...