Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on the Dole. Britain's insecurity has been exacerbated by 14 long months of haggling with the Europeans. Swallowing their pride and reversing centuries-old tradition, the British decided in mid-1961 to cross the Channel and make common cause with the Continent. Then last week, just as they were within sight of their goal, Charles de Gaulle of France contemptuously closed the door on perfidious Albion...
Even at home, the storm signals were flying. Once again the lines of unemployed workers are lengthening outside labor exchanges. The half-forgotten word "dole" is back in the language. Britain's overall unemployment rate of 2.6%, though mild by U.S. standards, is at a four-year peak and still rising. Moreover, most of the 600,000 men without jobs are concentrated in a few dozen "black spots" in the north, where in some communities up to 14% of the work force is on the dole ($13 a week for a married...
...Perry County's 36.000 people, 14,000 exist on dole. For many of the area's children, the only opportunity for a square meal is a public school hot lunch-if they have the shoes to get to school. The most fortunate adults work for a third of their old wages in "dog holes"-dangerous coal mines dug by anybody who can scrape up enough cash to finance...
...Kansas district could be laid mainly to the fact that he championed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's farm policies. He was also hurt by a campaign visit from Harry Truman, who declared to one audience that "farmers are the most ungrateful people in the world." Republican Bob Dole damned the Freeman program, won 21 rural counties in Breeding's old district...
...abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that Hawaii's pineapple and sugar industries have been developed about as far as is possible under the prevailing high wage levels. Says Dole Corp.'s President Herbert C. Cornuelle: "It's better for Castle & Cooke to go abroad than to die. This way, at least, money still comes back to Hawaii in dividends...