Word: supertight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes. Dowdy's complaint was handed to Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, whose enforcement powers are limited to public contract but whose public hearings can be powerful in dealing with private business. Field's, faced with an implied threat of public hearings and a supertight labor market, relented and wrote the commission that it had decided to give "a number of jobs, some menial, some not so menial," to qualified Negroes...