Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, jobless Charles Steinman became father of his ninth child...
...Bert Acosta, onetime [1923-25] chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, famed as "the bad boy of aviation." Frequently in official bad graces because of intoxication and stunting, Acosta was finally grounded in 1929. Since then he has been mostly jobless. Fellow pilots still rate...
Coal Miner Joe Kovarsky (Alan Baxter), jobless because he had been wrongly accused of participation in a plant bombing, is given a cruel choice. Either he must turn stoolpigeon on his fellow-workers, or the mine boss will deny Joe's wife the services of the company doctor in childbed. Joe does the human rather than the idealistic thing. His treachery is ultimately uncovered by his associates, and Joe departs from home and friends, a remorseful exile...
...Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt, the Foshay Tower was finally sold to a group of bondholders for an unrevealed price...
...stockbroker can see clearly, as Major Stanley does, the major defect in Britain's Dole. It has been administered by petty local boards. These are under ceaseless pressure from the local jobless. Obviously it would be more scientific, and it should be cheaper, to have National Government administer the Dole on a uniform, nationwide basis...