Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped to accomplish the job through "voluntary measures," the President added. But if that voluntary approach failed, he would use his present powers and ask Congress for any additional ones needed to let the Government: 1) tell employers the numbers and kinds of workers they may hire, 2) see that individuals serve in the jobs for which they are best fitted, 3) require the hiring of women, physically handicapped and older workers and members of minority groups, 4) import workers from friendly countries if necessary...
When the mud on the 500-acre site got so deep that supervisors could hardly walk or drive around, Colbert had a typical Texas solution: hire 25 horses from a local riding academy. When morale sagged in the long months of endless construction and production problems, Colbert said to his staff: "If I hear anyone here say this plant won't be built,' this engine won't run, this ship won't fly, or this plane won't win the war, I'm going to ask for his resignation immediately." When an assembly line...
Bradshaw and others in the Placement Office have received many complaints from men in the draft age who claim that firms are reluctant or entirely unwilling to hire them because they may be called to duty at any time...
...years, Harold Stoke found that his reforms did not always win applause. From the start, he aroused some of his deans by taking away their arbitrary right to hire & fire faculty members, and by giving the faculty a louder voice in university affairs. Some Louisianans disliked him because he was a Yankee (his last job: president of the University of New Hampshire), and because he tried to hire professors from outside the state...
...Defense Department prepared to hire another 218,366 civilian employees (present total: 1,287,063), most of them to work in shipyards, arsenals and other production jobs...