Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineers have ordered construction firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon...
...Group." The Blue and the Crimson wanted to avoid any organized pact which would commit them to playing Cornell with any regularity, and in the case of Penn, never. Harvard and Yale weren't being stuffy. They simply did not want to get trounced annually nor recruit a team capable of meeting Dr. Stassen's legions on even ground...
...deliver the big volume Sears wanted (Sears does 20% of all U.S. slipcover business). Sears volunteered to purchase raw materials for the supplier and store them, charging him only as he needed the materials. Later, Sears helped the manufacturer find a new plant in a small town and recruit a work force of 75, laid out year-round production schedules for him, and gave him a five-year-purchase contract which was enough to get him a bank loan to finance the new plant. Sears profits by such deals by getting low-cost goods made to its own specifications...
...Attempted to recruit a "Free Argentina" force in Brazil...
...English clergyman first got the idea for such a group in 1947. He came to the United States to recruit college students between the age of 18 and 25 who would devote their summers to serving in clubs, parishes, camps, hospitals, and settlement houses in England's Cockney country...