Word: menials
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...remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising young man with a horse and cart." With the big truckers' legal eyes boring in upon him, Licensing Authority John Hanlon found an easy way out of the impasse. Young Derek Wiscombe had worked too hard at his menial tasks to bother keeping his accounts straight, could produce' no documentary evidence that his services were needed. Hanlon forthwith denied the application...
...daily; Ford figures the loss at around 8? per customer to feed 3,000 workers at the Dearborn main headquarters. Part of the reason for the loss is that industrial firms must pay plant union wages and fringe benefits, which sometimes come to $2.50 an hour for the most menial kitchen help. A bigger problem is that most executives do not know how to supervise food expenses...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...
Pointing out the need for "experience on a menial level," Day advised graduates in the field to seek employment on a small country newspaper. Journalists who begin as copy boys for city dailies, he added, "are doing it the hard...
...University can hire young Ph.D.'s as tutors, making tutorial their primary obligation. Obviously, these men must also have a dedication to their field, but this can be cultivated as well by making them tutors as through the present system which turns them into a kind of academic menial. Serious teaching can be as efficient in organizing and stmulating many men's thinking in a field as research assistantships...