Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when divorce ended the union a year and a half later, he had accumulated such a handsome wardrobe that Producer Cecil B. DeMille personally gave him a job -at $30 a week...
Students used such phrases as "there is choas," "property subject to alienment," and "this report is purported to xplain." One student brashly wrote: "More specificly employers are almost unamimous in declaring that among all the college people they hire, very few have a well founded knowledge of the English language." Added Dean Johnston: "Amen...
...unemployment was down to 1,900,000 (v. 2,300,000 in September), close to the alltime low of 1,600,000 in 1948. In more than one-third of 150 areas that it surveyed, said the Department, companies expanding to handle defense orders found it almost impossible to hire new help...
...served in World War II, who had families, who were in business. National Guard divisions also contained many veterans, but thousands of young recruits had flocked to the Guard's ranks. Many of the reservists felt put upon, and with reason. Some businessmen were showing a reluctance to hire them; some insurance companies had stopped writing term insurance on them. Last week the armed forces announced plans to slacken off in demands upon the reserves...
...Caplin led her four children in an endless tactical retreat from one shabby rented house to the next. She worked out complicated trade agreements with butchers and merchants, refused to deal with a grocer who would not hire one of her three sons, and charmed bakers into parting with stale bread. She summoned up an awesome queenliness when facing unpaid and threatening landlords. There were times when she went out, late at night, and rummaged through neighbors' ash barrels for fragments of usable coal...