Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point the city's Council of Community Services reported 3,788 hardship cases per month, and people could be heard wishing that Studebaker would go under once and for all. Says a Chamber of Commerce official: "A minority wanted Studebaker to die, so we could take a fresh look at our future. But most people thought if we lose Studey, South Bend...
...bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...Hardship cases among non-student tenants will be given "special consideration," Whitlock emphasized. Rather than force out residents as the University did two years ago with the Prescott St. apartments, it will "handle these cases individually." Some residents have lived in the building for 28 years...
...excused from Army reserve duty): Every time they call me up for a week, it costs me $100 to get somebody to run the store. And it's hard on business because my customers want me, not a stranger, taking care of them. I mean, this is a hardship...
...nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent of all women between 15 and 60 give themselves up to prostitution in its various degrees." As for complaints that she has imposed an intolerable hardship on Italy's pridefully hot-blooded males, Signora Merlin last week snorted: "No one ever died of continence...