Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another possibility was manpower control. Already the armed forces, Government agencies and industries were competing for persons with special skills. ("Government agencies and industries are after my engineers all the time now," reported a men's dean at Georgia Tech-see EDUCATION.) As mobilization rolled on, the squeeze would reach down through all levels of the manpower supply...
Dean Fred W. Ajax of Georgia Tech was so harassed that he hardly had time to eat lunch. "I have personnel men from seven companies out here today interviewing students for jobs," he said, "and I have an average of three companies coming every day for the next three months. This is absolutely a sellers' market for engineers -any kind of engineers...
...neither Dean Ajax nor any other engineering dean was being harassed that way. Engineers were momentarily a glut on the market. But now, M.I.T. found that every one of its prospective February graduates had at least one job lined up. CalTech had 404 requests in two weeks. Illinois Tech blinked to find that it was getting recruiting visits from top company executives. Some of them were offering $125 a week...
...efficiency, Mikkola's squad could conceivably take every event. But with Weiskopf and Schiff gone, Ken Childs of Tech can cause trouble in the dash...
...Tech may show a little more strength in field events, but Dave Freeman and Ken Bjork can't approach Dick Barwise in the high jump and both Mello and Bob Lown can vault over George Thompson...