Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, Vissering had studied his who's who of the Livorno waterfront. The man he picked to hire the stevedores was Dino Mariani, a stocky character who had once boxed on the Italian Olympic team and had run Genoa's waterfront until the Communists took it over and put him out of action (after a brutal thrashing by a Red goon squad...
...world where beat-and-swing-and-pack-'em-in no longer pays off, Les Brown advises: "Hire good men, make hit records, treat the men well, make hit records . . . hold on to the men, make hit records." For the Band of Renown, it works pretty well...
Love Story. In Fairfield, Calif., Rancher Ralph Fong explained to the sheriff why he had tried to hire two men to kill his wife so that he could collect her $10,000 life insurance: "I loved her so much I couldn't shoot her myself...
...hardest fields to crack are those of journalism and publishing. Advertising and other forms of writing, such as radio and magazine work, are hard to get into. Although there is a critical need for teaches, schools and colleges are somewhat reluctant to hire them for fear that the draft may induct many students...
Doorman into Despot. The company's doorman turned out to be the head of 150 Nazis among the house's employees, and soon he was telling the Ullsteins whom to hire & fire and what to print. After all Jewish editors were fired, the Ullsteins were ordered to sell out to non-Jews. For the enterprise, easily worth $20 million, the brothers had to take about $4,300,000 from a buyer who was not named. He turned out to be Hitler himself. Soon the Nazis milked the Ullsteins of most of the $4,300,000 with trumped...