Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer; conscripts were disdained as utterly untrustworthy. Then, on the brink of victory and needing extra manpower for the final push, the Viet Cong began drafting men. Today, conscription is one of the Viet Cong's most serious problems, required not for victory but simply to replace the lengthening roster of casualties. Viet Cong troopers are paid only from 300 to 500 per month, v. a government recruit's pay of $27 per month, and few youths in V.C. areas volunteer any more. Instead, they are given an ultimate choice: join or be shot on the spot?a factor that...
Leading & Expanding. Picking up the idea, the Chicago-based firm of Motorola, Inc. last December introduced its Community Radio Watch and watched it take the lead; C.R.W. now claims a roster of a quarter of a million employee "agents" who work for some 20,000 business organizations in more than 300 cities. At first, C.R.W. operators funneled their reports through their company dispatchers. But increasingly police are calling C.R.W. first, and new programs are getting under way in St. Louis, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Lincoln, Neb. Says Cincinnati Public Safety Director Henry J. Sandman: "The police department could not duplicate...
...helping U.S. firms over such peaks, Kelly Girls and their competitors have built the "temporary help" business from its slender postwar beginnings into an industry with revenues of $500 million a year and a roster of some 1,250,000 part-time workers. The leaders got under way in the mid-1940s-Kelly Services Inc. in Detroit, Manpower Inc. in Milwaukee. Today they are both public companies, a far cry from the days when the industry really began to surge in the late 1950s, and the general expansion of U.S. business began to stretch the supply of skilled office workers...
...cadres for overnight inventories of department stores on a few hours' notice. Tellers trained in a special Kelly program help banks in 40 cities get through Monday and Friday rush hours. And an IBM 360 computer at Kelly's Detroit headquarters keeps track of a roster of Kelly technicians, including draftsmen and engineers, chemists and commercial artists...
...temper," soon had all the commissions he could handle. The Boston Daily Advertiser praised him because "his views are always correct, seeming like the present reality of the thing represented." His literalness appealed to Boston's practical Yankees, and until 1840, when he dropped from sight, his client roster included virtually every merchant family in Boston...