Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first pleasant chores of a freshman Congressman is to decide how he will spend some $40,000 a year that he rates for office help. He can hire his clerks, secretaries and office managers from the pool of old pros who live and work around Washington (and run the chance that his secrets may soon be on the grapevine), or he can reward his friends and relatives with jobs. One hazard: if he puts someone with his own family name on the federal payroll, his open nepotism may well backfire when the payroll records are made public. Last week came...
...opening of Squaw Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as a chambermaid. One woman guest arrived early, found Cushing still at work on the plumbing. Snarled Alec: "Madam, come back in three hours, and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, don't bother me." That night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working...
...MeBAC to advance some drama group of his own at the expense of independent theatres--he would act as general supervisor of the whole project, would act as booking agent (as he has done with John Gielgud, the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and so on), and would no doubt also hire producers to present shows which would originate here in Boston. There is no limit to the size and variety of what can be done with MeBAC, but it must get rolling right away, and an executive with vision and imagination is essential. MeBAC has picked CDF and Mr. Hunt...
...cost of $10,444, spend $60,000 to install extra equipment. The cost of preparing the program for the machine to handle, and installing self-checks in the system, is even greater. Companies which counted on replacing clerks with computers have found that it frequently costs more to hire nursemaids, who are highly paid technicians, for the computers than to keep the lower-paid clerks. Finally, poor programing for the computer can leave an expensive machine idle. Automation experts estimate that there is time available to rent on at least half the computers in the U.S. Says Gulf Oil Engineer...
Varsity football coach John Yovicsin will take a sabbatical leave next year, Thomas D. Bold, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday. Bold further stated that the University will hire Terry Brennan and Earl Blaik as "interim coaches" while Yovicsin is away...