Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have imported unemployed mountaineers from Appalachia to sweep floors at $3 an hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...
...another and with Government groups such as the CIA and the FBI, corporations are trimming requirements. G.E. once took 81% of its college hirelings from the upper quarter of their classes, now gets only 47% at that level. Companies formerly thumbed down draft-subject students but will now hire a 1-A for as little as three months in hopes of generating a corporate loyalty that will last until he gets...
...played it in two years. With scarcely a shrug, he retired to a piano backstage to brush up. By concert time he had it down pat, and during the performance he played it faultlessly. Later, after the inevitable post-concert dinner party in the suburbs, Rubinstein decided to hire a limousine for the 200-mile return trip to Manhattan. "Let's do it!" he cried. "It will be an adventure...
Kennedy, Galbraith explained, tended to hire people he knew who worked with him in the Senate and in his campaigns," and thus assembled a group of his Harvard acquaintances. Johnson's appointments have been rather more impersonal," not anti-Harvard, Galbraith said...
Many Americans suspect that they are descended from European royalty and often hire genealogists to prove it. By the same token, many Europeans are convinced that they have a relative who emigrated to America and became a millionaire. A few are right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake...