Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces calls it the "Hollywood Commandos." But musicians concede that the star-studded 51-piece Army Air Force Orchestra of Santa Ana, Calif, is undoubtedly the fanciest outfit in the history of U.S. popular music.* Hollywood agents divide their time between deploring its competition and their inability to hire it. Under onetime pipe-organist Major Eddie Dunstedter, it plays only for Uncle...
...national work week upped from 40 to 48 hours - with overtime for the extra eight. Ostensibly, the order was designed to free manpower (some estimates ran as high as 1,000,000 men) for the Army and war jobs by 1) making it unnecessary for war industries to hire more workers; 2) forcing consumer industries to fire employes no longer needed under a longer work week. The order reversed the peacetime Government labor formula of spreading the work and hiring as many as possible, instituted instead a wartime edict of hiring few and dispensing with as many as possible...
...purchase part of a unit, but had to build the missing pieces before the unit could be used at all. If OPA should stick to its ruling, Union's mill would have to close down one month this quarter, might not reopen for the duration because hard-to-hire mill hands would romp off to other jobs. Probable outcome: Kraft paper is so essential for shipping war materials that oil may be provided...
Year ago, the Supreme Court had refused to convict members of the Teamsters Union who stopped out-of-state trucks entering New York City and. compelled the truckers to hire a New York union driver or pay his fee. Sam Hobbs had promptly drawn a bill broadening the legal definitions of "robbery" and "extortion." Labor unions were not mentioned by name but the effect was to outlaw truck-stopping by the teamsters and any similar practices by other unions. Labor leaders protested the bill would do more-outlaw legitimate activities by unions. The bill died with the 77th Congress...
...work for the Personnel Office to hire four new caretakers for the maintenance department, advise the Yard cop about his old age insurance, or maybe settle a difficulty for some secretary over in University Hall...