Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected not in the skyline but in the HELP WANTED notices outside the machine shops and the POWDER ROOM signs inside them. Skilled labor is so short-1,500 jobs are currently going begging-that firms are hiring women to train as machinists, drivers and even roustabouts. Of the 150 employees at Miether Machine Works, 33 are women-all hired in the past few months...
...trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson Davis' special train left Richmond, abandoning the city to the Yankees, Foote writes, it was followed by others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among the last in the long procession were trains bearing indiscriminate...
Only Roy Reed's stories on the South consistently display a denser, more individualistic prose. His story on black families making a Christmas pilgrimage by train back to their old homes in the South is one of the best in the collection. Jon Nordheimer writes with a restrained power and simplicity, particularly in his forceful piece on the Congressional Medal of Honor veteran who was shot while robbing a grocery store...
...Administrator Russell Train expressed "shock" at the company's decision, saying: "Our intention is to clean up, not close down this facility." The cost of the fine, he figures, comes to an additional 94? per worker per day, and 75? per ton of steel produced. Unemployment benefits, on the other hand, cost the company $7 per day per laid-off worker. Train urged U.S. Steel to "reconsider" its decision. But the company still refuses to pay the fine, and the EPA refuses to accept any compromise solution. Both sides apparently fear setting precedents that might influence their future disputes...
...pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding out screams that are the counterpoint to murder and conspiracy. Finally, the Express stops dead in the middle of a Yugoslavian blizzard that turns the entire screen white for just a moment. The train is utterly isolated, one of those Agatha Christie devices--like the island cut off from civilization in And Then There Were None or the remote country house in The Mousetrap--that are patently ridiculous but serve as the ground rules for an entertaining game...