Word: fairchild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certification in 1975 from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Perhaps too rapidly. It now struggles to maintain a schedule of 200 flights a day with scant working capital and a modest fleet of 20 propjet planes, which include its own 19-seat De Havilland Twin Otters and 48-passenger Fairchild 227s and two leased 50-seat Convair 580s. Seldom are there planes available for back-up use. So even though Air New England is classified in the same category as national carriers like Eastern and United, it continues to operate in much the same manner as the "commuter" airlines. These...
...receives a constant flow of reports at his headquarters. More important, several times a year he flies to Belem on Brazil's northern coast, traveling economy class except when he can hitch a free ride on a friend's corporate jet. At Belem he waits for the Fairchild turboprop that makes the 90-min. flight daily between the port city and Jari. Disdaining VIP treatment, Ludwig crowds on board with newly recruited laborers, technicians returning from a few days of whooping it up in Belem and families coming back from shopping trips...
Monolithic Memories Corp. has a standing order for wafer sorters and probe-card repair technicians; meanwhile, the company is turning down orders for lack of workers. Synerteck needs ion implanters, who manipulate control panels to change the electrical properties of silicon. Fairchild Camera and Hewlett-Packard both have hundreds of positions available that cut across every level of skill. Avantek has an eye out for janitors interested in profit sharing...
Older employees at Fairchild are encouraged to persuade friends, neighbors, relatives and presumably passers-by on the street to quit their jobs and join the company that boasts "We Started It All"?in microelectronics and employee benefits. The bounty for a successful raid is $200 to $500, plus entry in the company sweepstakes. Prizes range from T shirts and dart boards to color TVs and trips to Tahiti and Mexico. Workers are given colorful promotion cards that announce the names of sweepstakes winners and, on the flip side, list some of the benefits of working for the company. Says...
Samuel E. Thorne, Fairchild Professor of Legal History, who will retire this year, said yesterday his department "is not doing much" to find a replacement in the area of medieval legal history, attributing the omission to lack of money and "departmental politics...