Word: hired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began by getting himself elected Agricultural Commissioner, promptly fired everybody in the department, put his own men in. He pushed his way to the Governorship, got the right to hire & fire State officials at will and use State funds...
...area (where 60% grow naturally) thousands of the industry's 65,000 workers have traipsed off to defense plants. To get men back wages have been bid up 15%. U.S. No. 1 oysterer, Bluepoints Co. (General Foods subsidiary on L.I.), will smash the immemorial "no-wimmen" tradition, hire women for shucking, packing, other inside work...
Geneva, instead of having a 10% influx of earnest young Americans learning to be soldiers, had a 100% influx of roughneck workmen-15,000 men, any sort of tough riffraff whom contractors could hire at high pay to build a big naval training station on Seneca Lake. All Geneva's spare rooms were let; cots filled the City Hall, an old movie house, a dance hall, hotel corridors. The once quiet, orderly town nearly went mad. Buses were so jammed that sometimes drivers had to threaten unruly crowds with wrenches in order to make them let passengers out. Decent...
...This Gun for Hire," though given second billing at the U. T., easily surpasses its dyspeptic counterpart. Alan Ladd grimly and effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...
...workers' sport). There are special movies for those on swing shifts, special nightclub parties starting in the cool of the morning. For workers who want them, there are welfare services: group and hospital insurance, medical attention; in at least one California plant, profits from the concessions pay the hire of a minister to comfort the sick and bereaved...