Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants, endlessly cadged and figured and wangled. As their savings dwindled, many became desperate. Some stowed away on ships; others turned to the smugglers...
...gothic structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity avenues reopened to the public shortly after the Army moved out three and a half years ago but not until last December was Kuhn able to open all the rooms in the building and even then his refurbishing job was not finished...
Clarence C. Halloway 21, a blind Negro, was struck down by a street car at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Chauncey Street at 8:30 p.m. last night...