Word: employers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough, said the Central's president, Alfred Permian, "to have provided a Chevrolet, if not a Cadillac, for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Railroad unions also add to costs by featherbedding, and full-crew laws in 16 states force the roads to employ men they consider unnecessary, last year cost the Central $5,000,000 in New York State alone...
...solo instruments, no small-scaled choral pieces; even his famous song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde, calls for a full orchestra. Of the ten symphonies he wrote, only the First and Fourth are of normal length; the rest run on for as much as 90 minutes and employ vast orchestras. Symphony No. 8, dubbed "the Symphony of a Thousand" by one impresario, calls not only for an orchestra beefed up with a special brass choir, but for two mixed choruses, a boys' chorus and eight solo voices...
...actual trial is for the official records to say. But there is a sense of forcing the high notes and of holding them too long. That trials are proverbially good theater is no accident: theater minds and legal minds equally highlight and soft-pedal to a purpose, equally employ shock and diversionary tactics. And they can equally breed doubts while scoring points: often vivid, Levitt's play does not really satisfy as a whole...
...Seoul office and seized its records, returned them only after the U.S. embassy protested. The authorities then turned down Northwest's application, grumbled that the airline was"pro-Japanese and anti-Korean." Reason: all its Tokyo-Seoul stewardesses are Japanese. Hinted one Seoul official: "Why not employ Korean stewardesses?" Last week Northwest announced that it will hire one or two Korean stewardesses, expects to start testing comely college graduates this month. Applicants, said Northwest, must speak English and Japanese, be less than 27, "should have a nice, slender figure, lots of charm, no glasses -and no gold or silver...
During Alfried Krupp's trial as a war criminal in -1948 (he was to spend 30 months in prison until pardoned), the U.S. prosecution charged that he "actively sought to employ concentration-camp inmates and for that purpose built factories near the camps of Markstaedt and Auschwitz." Though witnesses said that 100,000 camp inmates and P.W.s worked in Krupp plants, no one knows how many were Jews. Of the Jewish slave laborers, an unknown number died in the Nazi gas ovens. In the whole federal republic, there are now only 30,000 Jews. Krupp officials estimate that there...