Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both houses of the Mississippi legislature deplored the murders of the Negro children, asked speedy prosecution of the criminals. Mayor Alton Massey of Kosciusko proclaimed a "Thomas Harris Day," urged donations of money for the family. Kosciusko's outraged white citizens agreed to hire an attorney to assist in the prosecution of Turner and the Whitt brothers...
Other cities as far away as Albany, N.Y. and Boston were afraid to let Philadelphia fugitives come near. Food ran short and starvation stepped in behind disease. Prices of coffins skyrocketed. Servants fled and the few who dared hire out as nurses set their own fees. Some doctors left town in panic and many of those who stayed died from fever and fatigue. Rush himself came down with fever twice, prescribed from his bed, recovered and went on purging and bloodletting. To a panicked population he became a living symbol of strength even as his ministrations helped some toward their...
...these large industrial concerns plan to hire only 6,270 college men and women as against 8,321 in 1949. Exactly 5,621 of the graduates that the corporations can place will be males. Last year the same companies hired...
Cutbacks in employment will be greatest in personnel work, where the firms expect to hire 55 percent less than last year. There will be a 42 percent reduction in electrical engineering, 35 percent in sales and chemistry, 28 percent in mechanical engineering, and 25 percent in accounting and chemical engineering. Business training programs plan to reduce only 16 percent...
...week's end Maggiorani got some help from the U.S., where movie fans prefer a happy ending. Manhattan's Italian-language radio station WOV cabled its Rome studio to hire him as an apprentice recording technician, and perhaps give him work as an actor. While Giuseppina held out for a real acting job, Maggiorani gratefully considered the offer...