Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Executive Vice President Carter locked himself in his room at home with a bundle of Crenshaw blueprints. For the next three days he worked over them, with only snatches of sleep. By the time he had finished he had redesigned the store, and had decided to hire Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates to carry out his ideas...
...strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
Packard pointed to the mid-western colleges, a sharp contrast to this situation, where departments of five or six men are often employed to teach public speaking and liberal grants are given to debating societies with which to hire coaches or pay the professors for their coaching time...
When Welles discovered that he could hire an automobile (at $3.50 an hour), he began making side trips out into the country where, he found, the farther he got from Russia's bureau cratic capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
Last week in Rome, the cellos that Vittorio Abbati bent to were no longer imaginary. He had spent 200,000 lire (about $560) to hire a hall and the Rome Opera House Orchestra to play in it. The orchestra management, touched by Abbati's earnestness, even knocked down the price. Included in his program: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri, the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Said he: "I closed my eyes and there was my orchestra, the same one as at home. The music just flowed. Then I opened...