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To-day garages are short-handed because they cannot get the type of really efficient garage foreman that they must have.
The company state that to open waiting-rooms would necessitate the provision of a staff which, as they are short-handed, they are unable to supply.
They make extra demands on the police, who are already short-handed.
But that seems to indicate a considerable amount of efficiency, notwithstanding that the inspectors are somewhat short-handed.
It is that our police have been working short-handed.
It is because of its remarkable recruiting that frequently it has been able to lend squadrons to other cavalry regiments which are short-handed.
Under the present system they have to coal this ship and that ship, and they are short-handed to begin with.
So short-handed are some of the squadrons that leave entitlements cannot be fulfilled.
They are being run shorthanded at present, and are becoming more short-handed from day to day.
They are short-handed, as we have heard, and they are very hard-worked.
Their office staffs are short-handed at the present time.
In spite of being short-handed they have in some cases put through complicated minimum wage legislation which elsewhere has waited much too long.
It is in a position to help if the commission suddenly finds itself short-handed.
They are over-worked because they are extremely short-handed, but in many cases they have nobly thrown themselves into extra work and have regarded that as their war contribution.
Suppose, in similar circumstances a man is brought before a maritime court and in order that the ship may not sail short-handed, a fine of £25 or £50 is imposed.
