Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hire City-Manager...
...many an Eastern Seaboard filling-station owner, long forced to hire extra help and stay open at night for competitive reasons, Harold Ickes has been a blessing that upped their profits. To the Senate hearing on gasoline rationing (TIME, Sept. 22), some of them sent a man to plead for keeping Ickes' 7 p.m. curfew. Last week in Utah, far from the Eastern shortage belt, members of the State's Association of Petroleum Retailers adopted the curfew just because they liked...
...section of the public. With the Stadium, it is largely a question of which is to come first, the chicken or the egg. Is the public to get over being soloiststruck, and start patronizing orchestral concerts on the merits of the music alone, or is the Stadium going of hire conductors that do the New York Philharmonic Orchestra justice, and make it worth people's while to attend...
...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
...Brooklyn Dodgers lost a crucial game to the St. Louis Cardinals. Only a fortnight before, the unpredictable Dodgers were leading the league (four full games in front of the Cards), and Brooklyn bigwigs argued noisily whether to use their own Ebbets Field (which seats only 34,000) or hire Manhattan's Polo Grounds (seating 54,000) for the World Series. Then the St. Louis Cardinals bustled into Brooklyn...