Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat for Caesar. Probably they would get no more satisfaction than did Minneapolis radio station KSTP, which succumbed last week to the uncompromising czar of American music, after fighting a rear-guard action against him for ten months. KSTP agreed to hire a minimum of eight musicians (at minimum wages of $52 apiece for a 22-hour week), which is more musicians than the station needs...
According to Edstrom, increased concentration is taking place in the newspaper business. With fewer papers, he predicts, will come fewer but better job opportunities, and "newspapers are going to be more and more choosy about whom they hire, with college graduates having a definite advantage...
Like most well-heeled businessmen who decide to write a book, the first thing Beardsley Ruml did was to hire a ghost writer to do it for him. This did not work out. So Ruml squeezed enough time from his other jobs (treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co., chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, etc.) to set down his liberal business gospel in his own adding-machine style...
...July 1943, C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers complained to the Navy of a production slowdown at Norden's New York plant. Corrigan, Naval production-management boss for both plants, investigated and exonerated Norden. Then, the indictment charged, Corrigan persuaded Norden officials to hire his firm, with which he had supposedly severed all ties when he was commissioned. The fee: $104,000. As a result of Corrigan's recommendations, the Navy took over the Remington plant and turned it over to Norden...
...Bartlett and his colleagues, these results forecast a germinal revolution in U.S. dairy farming. Most dairymen have fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...