Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They talked to farmers, truck drivers, bartenders, charter-boat operators. Soon they had so much information that they changed their plans: Why not make a map that would tell fishermen everything-where to go for different fish, what kind of tackle to take, what time to fish, where to hire boats? Before long the mapmaking became so complicated that the situation was out of hand. Smith and Rathbun hired a professional cartographer, John F. Gantt Jr. "Instead of paying him," says Rathbun, "we asked him to become a partner and share our losses." The ambitious enterprise became Sportsmen...
...trouble: there simply are not enough qualified Negroes. Example: U.S. industry will hire all the Negro engineers it can get, but few Negro college students go in for science or engineering. They still favor the respectable, relatively secure professions, such as teaching, medicine, the ministry and the law. In business, Negroes are generally in service lines, e.g., undertakers, barbers, cleaners, etc. This is not entirely the result of discrimination. Also to blame: the Negro's lack of confidence, which makes him underestimate his very real opportunities...
SPORTS & TV. The sight of Negroes playing major-league baseball, carried all over the nation by TV, has probably done as much for equality as most legal victories. Southern minor-league clubs have begun to hire Negro players. TV has had another effect on the South: it has carried to thousands of people their first sight of colored and white entertainers appearing together. Says one Negro teacher: "Why, stuff like that, coming into white homes, it's going to make the white man think, whether he realizes...
Howell said that if the University or any other organization wanted to hire him to keep rain away, it would have to assume all legal liability it such suits were brought
Agent Braumoeller explained that agents of his bureau often have trouble proving cases against dope peddlers because it is simply the word of the agents against the word of the seller. He wanted the Narcotics Bureau to hire a photographer to snap pictures of meetings between agents and peddlers to use as evidence. Would Reck assign a photographer to make a test? Gladly, City Editor Reck called in Keith Dennison, 54, his veteran chief photographer...