Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aglimmering. The Chinese dollar, which slipped after the fall of Kweilin and Liuchow, tobogganed to one-third of its previous value. Last week it took 600 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Businessmen, who have long staggered under loads of currency on their way to the bank, now hire coolies to carry the day's receipts...
...vital rubber city of Akron last week was beating off a streamlined version of the old labor-pirating racket. Swamped with war orders and short of skilled workers, 20 small, back-alley machine shops had hijacked machinists from bigger war plants. Their system was simple: each would hire someone else's skilled worker away as a "private contractor," let him "bid" on each job he turned out and "rent" the machine he worked on. Technically, this wile put the worker in business for himself. Thus the worker who changed jobs needed no WMC statement of availability, and by "bidding...
...hope to be kicked around less by the bossy Army. Yonai could always cite his record in the Hiranuma government. He resisted the formation of the Axis at that time, postponed it a year by insisting: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor; it is not for hire, by Hitler or anyone else...
...sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann and the late Sergei Rachmaninoff hire a favorite tuner's fulltime services. Perhaps the most famous piano tuner who ever lived was the late Eldon Joubert of Boston, who for 30 years was Paderewski's constant companion...
President Manuel Avila Camacho took the labor bull by the horns last week, struck at the last vestiges of union control of Mexico's railroads. Management now has power to hire & fire, to disregard all union regulations which "slow up, impede or impair" operation-more power, in fact, than U.S. railway management possesses...