Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here is Cambridge, 4,355 undergraduates are bravely filling out myriad forms, secure only in their knowledge of one dismal fact; next year at this time, pre-supposing that spring will come, they will be able to hire out as experienced biddies. Recruiting sergeants in the Central Square booths predict a 50 percent rise in enlistments as many of the 4,355 lose their last remaining reason for remaining here after the winter examinations...
...Force announced a plan to hire local civilians to replace 35,000 earthbound airmen doing pencil and monkey-wrench work at overseas bases. Operation Native Son, as the Air Force unofficially dubbed it, will free the 35,000 for military tasks, save a lot of money besides. An Air Force enlisted man, costing $14,000 to train and $4,900 a year to keep, makes an expensive grease monkey; a skilled Japanese mechanic is happy to do the work for $900 a year-handsome wages...
Ramsey added that even though the Corporation has refused to fire Professor Furry he does not think it would hire him now. "At a great university," he said, "there is a tremendous distinction between what the standards are for hiring and the standards for firing. A man may indeed hold opinions and perform actions which the university considers deplorable and wrong. It will, nevertheless, maintain him. Yet, in general, a university will only hire a man whom they think at the time will make the greatest contribution to the university and to the country...
...long after he became governor of California in 1943, Warren laid down a rule: "I don't want to hear of any of my department heads refusing to hire anyone for reasons of race, color or creed." Among Warren's own appointments was Edwin L. Jefferson, the first Negro ever named to California's Superior Court. To each of the California legislative sessions, from 1945 through 1953, Warren proposed, in one form or another, a state agency to assure fair treatment of all races. The proposal was rejected each time, but Warren personally stuck to the stand...
...tied up with the growing complexity and diversity of the industry. The white collar workers are growing more and more divorced from the technical aspects of airplane design and construction. The industry has reached the point in its development where the founders, once contemptuously called dreamers, have had to hire accountants and all the tribe of regular and orderly minds to keep tabs on their sprouting colossus...