Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acidly Senator Byrd remarked the fact that Chicago's Jack M. Willem had been made coordinator of bowling. Icily he claimed: "Mr. Willem, as national bowling coordinator, I understand, is authorized to undertake a national campaign to recruit 25,000,000 men, women and children for regular attendance at bowling alleys. Mr. Willem has been identified to me as an executive of the Stack-Goble Advertising Agency, which handles the account of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. I am informed the company holds a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of bowling alleys, balls and pins...
...effort to arouse cooperation in the University to meet the increasing shortage of farm laborers, a drive was launched yesterday by Andrew E. Rice '43 to recruit volunteers to spend the summer working on the farms of New Hampshire and Vermont in the Volunteer Land Corps...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...
America's 3,258 women pilots last week got an invitation to spread their wings for Britain. In Manhattan famed Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, who flew a bomber to Britain last June, announced that she was setting out on a tour of ten U.S. cities to recruit female flyers for the British Air Transport Auxiliary. The project was blessed by CAA and the War Department, also by Jacqueline's great & good friends, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt...
...operas go, Carmen, credible in story and neat in tunesmithing, is nearly perfect. But plump divas and paunchy tenors have often flawed it. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produced a new gypsy heroine, a slim, long-legged, flaunting quean. The Met's new Carmen, a recruit from the Brussels and Paris operas named Lily Djanel (pronounced John L.), was a bit wobbly in voice, especially in early moments of apparent stage fright. But she proved a plausible charmer, raised many a hair when she read death for herself in the cards...