Word: hammar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter Hammar was an expert lacemaker, and both he and his wife Hanna worked as hard as they could, but there was no margin of safety in the wages they earned for their growing family. As soon as Erland was old enough to leave school he went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon...