Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place. Beyond all this was the fact that the free world's hopes in the cold war are based on a thriving, productive U.S. economy-and despite the fundamental strength of the economy (see BUSINESS) there is no hiding the fact that the polka-dot spots of distress, in the polka-dot recession, are spreading...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
Emerging from the briefing, the Senators quickly put their distress on record. "A sad and shocking story," said Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington. Said New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges: "Very unpleasant information...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...