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...public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship in prospect for this winter. Unemployment difficulties are vastly exaggerated. If 6,000,000 persons become jobless, that does not mean 30,000,000 (five to a family) will depend on charity, but rather only about 4,000,000. At least one man in three has savings to fall back on. The country must stop expecting the worst. Conditions are not good but nobody will starve. There is too much "tightening of the belt" in anticipation of need and hardship, which reduces buying, makes matters worse. If the word "Unemployment...
...there was the issue of the Jacksonville Agreement, which the operators claimed they could not live up to. But the hardship and wretchedness of this year's "starvation strike" appeared to be not the result of sudden conflict, but the festering of a chronic industrial disease...
...over the United States. And in the winter there would be an opportunity to skate and ski and tramp through the woods. It is really enjoyable at times to go off into the country, cook one's own food, sleep out of doors, all with a minimum of hardship...
...winter of 1777-78, low ebb of the Revolution, was one of intense hardship and discouragement for General George Washington and his Continental troops encamped at Valley Forge, Pa. The winter of 1930-31, low ebb of the Depression, was one of almost equally intense suffering and heartbreak for President Herbert Hoover and his Republican advisers encamped in Washington. Last week President Hoover went to Valley Forge, now a military park, to deliver a Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican...
...valve had failed to work, and they were forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking...