Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of the war, the U.S. had its first real unemployment problems; some 3,000,000 people were out of work. So far it was not an alarming figure. Unemployment was still more a small reminder of grim times of the past than an indication of hard times just around the corner...
...haven't sold enough whisky since the first of the year to bother taking the corks out of the bottles. Just beer-beer and more beer." His business was off 40%. "I'm better off than some of the boys," he added, "because I'm just around the corner from the Michigan unemployment bureau. I get a chance to cash their checks...
...crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things would straighten out. Now they sit around the union halls and wonder whether they should move to some place where there is more varied opportunity...
...explaining them at Briggs Cage, driving down every afternoon from his Manchester-by-the-Sea home around 1, and staying until 5. His only worry is track Coach Jaakko Mikkola's shot put and weight throw corps, which operates daily in the Cage. "If we can dodge those 35-pound weights for the next couple of weeks," Stuffy says, "we'll make out fine this spring...
...worth the price of admission to see McInnis play. A little over five feet eight inches in height and carrying about 150 pounds. Stuffy is the whole works around one of the greatest infields ever gotten together. He wears a uniform that has been through many a battle and his glove appears to the onlooker to be bigger than himself. He is always working. While his teammates are going to the bat he scampers around the coaching lines begging of them to connect with the ball. When his time arrives, he rushes to the bench, picks...