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...MANY U.S. JOBLESS...
...labor force (currently about 62 million over the age of 14). The bureau first checks a tiny, carefully chosen sample of the U.S., only 25,000 households in 68 key areas. Then it mathematically projects the figures on the size of the labor force-and the jobless-to cover the 45 million households spread out across the nation. To the layman, the sample seems woefully small. Even the slightest mistake is multiplied 1,800 times. Yet statisticians claim they can get accurate results, and point to the 1950 census, which showed a difference of only a few thousand in unemployment...
...surfer, and OSP may be the first to go. Washington already talks of cutting OSP funds from $1 billion to $500 million next year. The program will also become increasingly hard to defend if unemployment rises in the U.S. Political pressure will build up for more defense contracts in jobless areas at home, though it can be argued that dollars spent on guns abroad eventually trickle back to the U.S. through increased European orders for civilian goods. Furthermore, Congress is worried about Communist infiltration of European factories working on OSP contracts; Senators Styles Bridges and W. Stuart Symington, on their...
...went abroad, two dark-skinned, cowboy-booted bodyguards were seldom far away. To the Mexicans of Duval County he represented both love and fear. Like his father he spoken fluent Spanish, almost invariably named a full slate of Latin Americans for the voters to elect. The sick, the jobless, the unlucky were seldom turned away from Parr's air-conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes...
...automatically compensating for damage to industry, the only valid reason for tariffs is removed. Gene Milli kin called it "government trying to play the Deity with our economic system." Such statements overlooked some figures computed by the U.S. Labor Department: each week 300,000 newly unemployed workers apply for jobless insurance; but cutting all tariffs in half would cost only 100,000 workers their jobs...