Word: doled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazing poster urged all patriotic Bellboy defenders of freedom and democracy to "Join the Lowell Mole Patrol. Lowell must enroll as a whole in the Mole Patrol to save Mole's Soul. All aid to Adams. All Dole to Mole, (short of cash.) Write to Chester Gould Today...
...since the days of proud, fast Clipper Ships has the U.S. shipping industry looked as rosy as it did last week. Two years ago it was kept afloat only by Government subsidies averaging $12,500,000 annually. Now the U.S. merchant marine .is making money and the Government dole has been cut to only $125,000 annually...
...larger, not a smaller, share in the councils in Washington where the economic policies of the war and particularly the postwar world are going to be framed. Labor will fight for an economy premised on full employment; it will not fight for a return to relief or the dole. . . . Washington is even now open to criticism because it has not effectively explained to the forces of labor what it is trying...
...point to a growing record of achievement. Old-age pensions had been increased from ten shillings to one pound weekly. The weekly allowance to wives and families of men in the armed forces had been raised one shilling for wives, one shilling sixpence for the first two children. The dole had been increased from 26 to 30 shillings for man & wife, from 35 to 41 shillings threepence for a family of five. A new wage scale and more liberal workmen's compensation rates had been obtained. Labor also took credit for the Emergency Powers Bill granting the Government power...
Borough officials all over London were working 16 hours daily to ease the plight of bombed-out people. But until the two new Coordinators should have time to use their dictatorial powers and slash red tape it was impossible for an evacuee to draw dole money, get railway fare for a destination in the country, secure transfer of ration cards, have children shifted from one school to another or obtain new billeting without standing in line for hours, or even days, at various offices. In one London area an official took some homeless children to a public bath, spent half...