Word: hired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...would have been more spectacular to swing with both arms, hire & fire, tear down and rebuild. But Donald Nelson, the nation's new Production Boss, the man on whom the black blame or the golden praise for the U.S. war effort would now fall, did not work that way. Said Nelson: "We have got to make haste, but make it in the right direction...
...Production Board, final authority-authority greater than any U.S. citizen except the President himself has ever had, greater than that wielded by sage old Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I production tsar. For the first time under the New Deal, a top man was given power to hire & fire without a Presidential...
...greater extent than at any time since he first took command during the choking depression eight years ago, the President could act with complete authority. He could fire, hire, demand, order, and get what he thought best and necessary-with perfect assurance that the country was solidly behind...
...influential of all U.S. investment bankers, last week decided to enter the brokerage business as well. First step will be to drop the "Inc.," set up a partnership before year's end. Then it plans to join the New York Stock Exchange (barred to corporations), open retailing departments, hire customers' men, fit out a big board room...