Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreground was an appalling unemployment problem. The chairman of Shanghai's General Labor Union in a report to party bosses had recently given the following partial breakdown of unemployment: construction workers, 31,000 (95%); cigarette factory workers, 30,000 (75%); wharf coolies, 10,000 (32%); merchant seamen, 20,000; shop & sales clerks, 20,000. He admitted widespread unemployment in the papermaking, matchmaking, silk-weaving, rubber and cotton textile industries. On the basis of these figures, Hong Kong observers reckoned that 600,000 people were close to starvation in Shanghai...
...breakdown of voting on approval of the new Varsity Club by team members and other follows: Percentage results in the Houses were as follows...
...looked, listened to everyone and learned about news and editorial administration, in 1919 was made vice president. (At the same period Adler, also a vice president, was serving his own apprenticeship.) When 75-year-old Adolph Ochs suffered a breakdown in 1933, Sulzberger temporarily ran things. After Ochs died in 1935, Mrs. Ochs (who died in 1937) and Mrs. Sulzberger got life interests in the trust he had set up for the block of stock that controls the Times. Named as trustees were Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Sulzberger and Adler. By giving control of the trust to Mr. & Mrs. Sulzberger, Publisher...
...developments have maintained the status due and preserved comparative peace in the Middle East during this year. The first is the inability of the United Nations to enforce its resolution on Jerusalem; the other is the breakdown of Arab unity...
...Breakdown of the answer to the two main questions shows: A. Function of the Council: Strictly a service group 243 More service than advisory 186 Both about equally 670 More advisory than service 220 Strictly an advisory group 321 B. Membership of the Council: Entirely elected 760 More elected than appointed 349 Both about equally 223 More appointed than elected 85 Entirely appointed...