Word: doled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons were in a bristling, grumbling mood. But they stood and took it again. There was no disorder as factories closed indefinitely; by this week unemployment was up to 2,000,000 and rising fast; 1,255,000 had registered for the pittance of the dole (about $10 a week for a family of four). The British national character and the British political mood stood out in their words and deeds...
...order went into effect, Britain was a nation of confused, angry, alarmed people. Half of Britain's industry-most of her motor factories, machine shops, textile mills-was shut down. About 4,000,000 people were thrown out of work. By candlelight, thousands applied for the dole. Shares on London's stock exchange slumped as traders talked about "an industrial Dunkirk." Many towns were without electricity. Housewives queued up for runs on candles and kerosene. Women & children dragged bags of coal from railroad yards...
...kept for months instead of weeks. New York's Radio City Music Hall, which used to show 20 pictures a year, last year showed only seven. This boosted the revenue per picture and per dollar investment enormously. It had also enabled studios to cut down on picture making, dole out the pictures already on its shelves. Item: Paramount's current smash moneymaker, Two Years before the Mast, cost only $1,000,000 to make two years ago, about half of what it would cost today...
Love on the Dole. In Chicago, Richard Cromwell, told to pay his wife $20 a week alimony, claimed it was not enough, heard his wife protest it was too much. The judge's decision: "You two are still in love...
...Indians would vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...