Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ The notion that air conditioning and Diesel engineering will employ vast numbers of new workers is just a notion: last year 100,000 went to Diesel schools, only 4,000 got jobs. Reason: Diesel engineering recruits most of its workers from gasoline engineers, who can learn Diesel work in...
¶ Instead of studying stenography (overmanned), girls should learn to operate business machines (undermanned). >The war is likely to help printers, aviation, chemical and railroad workers, is bad for cotton and tobacco farmers.
¶ Suggested steps for getting a job: 1) buy a loose-leaf notebook; 2) keep a record of findings about yourself and possible careers; 3) prepare yourself for a particular career before you start hunting.
¶ Biggest factor in getting and keeping a job is oomph: at least half of the men & women who lose jobs (except in Depression layoffs) are fired for maladjusted personalities.
Last week Hey wood Broun wrote his final column for the New York World-Telegram. It was a farewell to dapper little Roy Howard, who had been his boss for almost twelve years. Said Broun, polite as always, though he dictated from his bed in a Manhattan hotel, where he...