Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leslie Burgin is a "bureaucracy gone mad," as charged by Socialist Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, which would like to get all British industry nationalized as a war measure. It was also intended to ask His Majesty's Government why thousands of miners are still jobless despite a coal shortage, and, finally, why the colossal rearmament program has not yet absorbed 1,400,000 British unemployed...
Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...
...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...publicity and no showing off!" In Paris, for example, the war has thrown many musicians and writers out of work. So there is a small committee, Dejeuners de Lettres et de la Musique, one of whose presidents happens to be Mme Lebrun. It serves an ample lunch to jobless writers and musicians...
...gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...