Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marine architects, and for the first time the contractor, not the Navy, will design a major combat ship. The destroyers will be of a new, larger class to be used mainly for antisubmarine duty. In pursuit of the award, Litton spread word that, if it won, it planned to hire 2,000 additional black workers, who might otherwise drift to the ghettos of the North. Litton will also subcontract about 60% of the job to other firms. Some work may well go to Maine's Bath Iron Works Corp., which was Litton's major competitor for the award...
...strikes the U.S. across the board, is a shortage of jobs this summer. Government programs will provide only 440,000 jobs in 1970 v. 505,000 a summer ago. Worse, the state of the economy is so bad that many companies that have gone out of their way to hire young blacks in previous summers say they can no longer afford to do so. There are only 15,000 summer jobs for 75,000 teen-agers in Detroit, no more than 3,000 jobs for 15,000 youngsters in San Francisco. Unemployment is already high among adult blacks. Asks...
...only defend those whose goals I share. I'm not a lawyer for hire. I only defend those I love...
...profession and individually, we know that our ideal is to provide competent counsel for any person with a legitimate cause," the Journal says. "A lawyer for hire is available to the bad and the ugly, the scorned and the outcast. We know from long collective experience that many will go without legal defense or representation if they must depend upon finding a lawyer who 'loves' them...
Some years ago. Harvard's civil rights image needed some beefing up. The order went out from on top to hire more blacks. The Chase Manhattan Bank, and just about every other businessmen around, sent out a similar order. So blacks were hired (by benevolent Harvard) to be painters...