Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foremen make the rounds of war workers' homes, to lure them to new jobs. One plant sent telegrams to another's workmen, offering them all good jobs-sight unseen-at 7:30 next morning. Personnel managers were saying: "the way to get one good man is to hire four because three will quit...
...girls, who used to hire a bus to come to PBH teas here, about-faced this year, and the Navy obliged by recruiting plenty of men. But when this young ladies from Wellesley heard that the first to apply had been signed on, they were unhappy. "Look here," said the Navy, and that...
Slip of a Miss. In Topeka, a gas-station manager who had to hire a girl attendant because of the manpower shortage had to fire her because of her blistering vocabulary...
...parity, and food costs immediately shot up. Defense of this legislative larcency was to be expected, but the farm bloc then insisted on 112 per cent by writing in a clause that wages to labor should be included in costs. Since only a few thousand well-to-do farmers hire laborers for pay, this proviso is both arbitrary and unnecessary. Only this minority fights to the last furrow for inflationary farm prices...
Name of the new service is the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Not yet ready to put skirted airmen into its uniform, the Air Forces will hire its new ferry service pilots as Civil Service employes (at $3,000 a year). As boss of the new squadron the Air Forces picked photogenic, 28-year-old Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love, flying wife of a lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command, set her up in business at headquarters at Wilmington...