Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From time immemorial it has been the custom, on those days, for the poor people of Benevento to hire out their sons, twelve years and up, to farmers seeking cheap labor. The children are brought to the Piazza del Duomo, where they wait while their parents bargain. The farmers take a look at the boys, sometimes test a muscle, go back to bargaining. For a promising boy they will pay the parents 6,000 lire (about $10) and a few bushels of wheat for a year's work. When the bargain is struck, the boy goes...
Lately, there has been a lot of criticism of Benevento's child market. A picture of Luigi Esposito, one of the boys for hire this year, especially touched Italian newspaper readers (see cut). The Ministry of Labor has investigated the Benevento market. But, said local Police Chief Martini: "This market has nothing to do with slavery. It is a time-accepted form of hiring farm labor for lower work, such as stable cleaning and goat watching...
...Brattle has received a few offers to sell. They include a group which wants to show foreign movies and one which wants to hire the hall to private parties for dancing...
...more than three acres of forest land, paddies and dry rice field. The U.S. occupiers had taken his woodland for SCAP's land reform program. Then, in drinking and gambling on flower cards, Ichiro had lost all but half an acre of the rice land. He had to hire out to other villagers. Still, he had a docile, hard-working wife and three fine daughters, of whom his special pride was the middle one, Satsuki (May Moon). May Moon, plump, smart and 17, was an honor student at the local high school, and read Jefferson, Lincoln, Hawthorne, Goethe...
...Kisco. This estate had only one swimming pool, only one tennis court, and a private movie theater with only one operator. On our private golf range, Eleanor had to play with repainted balls. When it came to servants I really put my foot down. I refused to hire more than one butler, one cook and three maids. What's even worse, Eleanor had only one personal maid and one personal laundress. She got only $17,000 pocket money a year . . . Her clothes were mostly rags stitched together by cut-rate seamstresses like Hattie Carnegie and Valentina . . . She had only...