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Old Scientist: Glancing at ads from the past

By Mick O'Hare

4 July 2018

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AS A great resource for those trying to find a career in science, 91av runs job recruitment pages every week. Some are a big deal. On 14 July 1966, we carried an advert for air traffic control officers. Around a million civil aircraft carrying 21 million passengers had overflown the UK in 1965, and the role was described as facing “a growing challenge… to meet the demands of the increasing numbers”. Quite: more than 2.5 million flights now cross the UK each year, with 230 million passengers, which is one of the arguments we are hearing for a…

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