Trying to understand Millennials? Maybe looking at how to manage the G.I. Generation, as Chevrolet was doing in 1940, will help. An analysis of “Hired!”, where a Lost Generation manager gets advice from his father on his G.I. Generation hires.

Information about Jam Handy from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy

Hired! At the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Hired1940

Also there, found a production log that says Hired! was completed in September 1940. 

https://archive.org/stream/JHOProdLog3/JHO_Prod_Log_1#page/n27/mode/2up/

Which is to say, just in time for the 1941 model year, about a year after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and in the middle of the Battle of Britain.

IMDB links to the MST3K episodes that featured Hired:

Bride of the Monster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0776502/

Manos the Hands of Fate http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0757564/

 

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