Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When members of the seven-man subcommittee demanded that they be allowed to vote on firing Matthews, Joe refused and coolly announced that, as chairman, he and he alone had the right to hire and fire committee employees...
...dailies taking TTS, found they not only played their stories differently, but had more time and manpower to concentrate on their own state and local news. Many papers that buy TTS from the wire services also now use their own TTS machine to set local copy. Some even hire typists to operate the typewriter-keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines. The Miami Herald uses its own TTS circuits to cover local stories, e.g., the Herald punches tape in the press...
...such notoriously open-handed patrons as drunks, lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles...
Fisher and his staff went after the city offices charged with enforcing housing regulations, found them loaded with do-nothing political appointees. "We don't hire them," said Building Commissioner Roy T. Christiansen. "They [i.e., the Democratic machine] send them to us." The city building officials, said Reporter Fisher, "walked to the gallows with smiles on their faces. Apparently it never occurred to them that we actually would go out to the slums to compare conditions with what the inspection reports represented them...
DESPITE the furor over the $5 billion cut in the Air Force budget, planemakers are not worried-yet. Not only has there been no warning of contract cancellations among the old-line companies, but Boeing expects to hire another 1,600 workers this summer, mainly for B-52 production. North American is keeping up its fast pace on F-86 Sabre jets; Lockheed expects that "production will continue at its present high level for some time." The planemakers even hope that a revision may stabilize plane building and avert drastic cuts a few years hence...