Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swarthy One. Before the dust settled, the assailants had melted into the crowd and vanished with a practiced finesse that befitted their leader, a swarthy professional assassin who has been killing for hire for more than 20 years. A shadowy Palestinian once employed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Kassem's would-be killer, who is well known to the police, counts among his coups the shooting of an Arab sheik who had agreed to sell land to Jews and the murder of a British official on the steps of a church in Nazareth. Barred from several Arab countries...
...tightest labor supply in booming Germany's history has employers at each other's throats not for customers but for workers-and there is no worry about the expansion in population that preoccupies many of the world's sociologists. One South German auto manufacturer, after hiring every idle man in 30 miles not confined to a wheelchair, sent a recruiting team through Germany offering competitors' workers big pay increases. Another employer offered to pay his men $9.52 to bring in a teammate. When a depressed Ruhr coal mine laid off 400 men, a Frankfurt rubber factory...
...labor shortage has made refugees from East Germany welcome guests instead of mouths to feed. Many German employers keep fulltime agents at the refugee reception centers; they hire about 7,000 working-age refugees a month. Supplementing these immigrants, the government itself maintains a recruiting office in Italy, this year has obtained 15,000 Italians to work in Germany, in addition to 10,000 who came unassisted...
...acute shortage of secretaries is forcing many University offices to share receptionists and hire part-time undergraduate typists, Nicholai F. Wessell, associate director of personnel, said yesterday...
Until about three years ago, Harvard had its choice of graduates in the top third of every major women's college, Wessel explained. But then the big industrial companies suddenly realized the talents of college girls and began to hire them...