Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes or have what the league calls a symbolic "role model" significance. Secretarial positions, for example, are particularly coveted, because a Negro secretary or receptionist, sitting outside the boss's office, tells everyone in a company-more effectively than a dozen interoffice memos-that its policy is to hire Negroes. "If you've got them up on the executive floor," notes Young succinctly, "there is no question." More than 300 Negro girls in six cities are going through league-sponsored courses in typing, shorthand, English and office procedures...
There were other problems. To begin with, Richardson's Woodfall Productions had to negotiate individual contracts amounting to $35,800 with each of 749 villagers who owned portions of the 3,000 acres in the valley. Then, since the valley floor was marshy, the company had to hire the Turkish National Waterworks to drain it at a cost of $40,000. And so it went, through unseasonable cold spells and rainstorms that flattened tents and scuttled beach scenes on the Black Sea. Then, two weeks ago, just when the cast thought they had survived the worst, the country...
...prices. Though a sophisticated computer system may cut a hospital's labor force, such automation is not widely in use. Without good planning, improved care seems to require more employees. Since 1946, the number of hospital employees per patient has increased from 1½ to 2½. To hire more employees, hospitals must compete with industry; last year hospital wages rose 20%. And labor costs already make up 62% of hospital budgets...
...Inter presumably will not mind. But Rear Admiral Paul Hebrard, a retired naval aviator who is Air Inter's chairman, insists that Mlle. Dubut is aboard only because the airline has now outgrown its supply of males. "Her record was faultless. There was no reason not to hire her," he says. Not content to leave well enough alone, the admiral makes the ridiculous claim: "She must also be considered not as a girl...
Relations between Kodak and FIGHT deteriorated, and after January 10, negotiations broke down completely. Ironically, Kodak has been a model company and set an example for the whole country in its programs to hire and train Negroes...