Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordeal for Hire. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
...wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...
...executive vice president of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories (drugs), Businessman Francis Boyer has to deal with and hire scientists. Last week he told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society how he tries to decide whether a scientific researcher is apt to make real discoveries...