Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's lifted face is a deception. Ask any Westberliner. He'll tell you that the grass was seeded and the rubble cleared by men made jobless by the blockade, and that the sparkling shops are near bankruptcy...
...every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this...
...ranks of the jobless dwindled by 333,000 in September in the second successive monthly drop in unemployment shown in the late-summer business upswing. The Census Bureau reported a decline to a total of 3,351,000 unemployed...
...reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment compensation claims again declined...
...rate of industrial layoffs had slacked considerably. In the latest week, said the Labor Department, new claims for jobless benefits totaled only 251,000, the lowest for any week since last November. Department store sales, hard hit by the hot summer, had also perked up a bit; retailers saw better business ahead. At the end of July, said FRB, 296 of the largest department stores had ordered $401 million in new goods, v. $286 million at the end of June...