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Word: recruits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill, who likes to be prepared, asked the House of Commons to re-establish the Home Guard. His reasoning: as the U.S. Air Force's principal overseas atom-bomber base, Britain might one day be the target of massive Russian paratroop attacks. Churchill's government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle or Sten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Home Guards Again | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Among his new responsibilities will be that of keeping a firm grip on the new and aggressive alumni program to recruit students without buying them. He must see to it that the present clean admissions policy is not perverted in the execution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bender | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...University's largest organization continued to spread as its members (800 last year) found more and more ways of helping students and people. A ticket agency operates to save undergraduates time and expense in reserving seats for plays and shows in Boston theatres. A speakers group was formed to recruit entertainers and speakers to lecture and perform, free of charge, for the experience, to any group that wanted them...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Religion Committee Inspects PBH, Decides on No Changes in Program | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...Wartime Recruit. Jim Nance, 50, a relative newcomer to the G.E. hierarchy, was picked by ex-President Charlie Wilson, who was impressed by Nance's work as a member of WPB's advisory board for industry. He was already a veteran in the electrical industry, had managed Frigidaire's commercial refrigeration department, bossed Zenith Radio's wartime production. Charlie Wilson liked his zip, enthusiasm and selling touch. He sent him to Chicago in 1946 as executive vice president of a G.E. subsidiary then called Edison General Appliance Co. The company's chief value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Heating Up Hotpoint | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Cross officials yesterday decided that they would have to recruit more nurses to handle the "unprecedented" flow of blood donation pledges from University and Radliffe students. The actual bloodletting is slated to start at Memorial Hall December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Blood Pledges Exceed Nurse Supply | 11/16/1951 | See Source »

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