Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year...
...news had its compensations. The increase in unemployment compensation was big partly because 7,000,000 more workers now have the protection of jobless pay than in the 1954 recession. Likewise, inventory liquidation will allow a swifter increase in production later...
Around the nation, there was a sprinkling of layoffs and forced "vacations"; Chrysler shut down major plants for the year's last two weeks, laid off some 60,000 workers, Ford another 35,000. As the jobless rose to about 3,700,000 in December (2,500,000 in December 1956), economists speculated that unemployment might hit 4,500,000 by midwinter...
...schoolmates' taunting puns ("Fanny sat on a tack. Fanny rose? Shore!"). Recalls Dinah: "I tell you, it just made me go home nights and chew my pillow." In childhood she suffered from polio, which for six years threatened the full use of her right foot. After some bleak, jobless days in Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms), and was fired from one of her first radio shows by the late Tobacco Tyrant George Washington Hill for not singing "loud...
Rather than "hang around for the bitter end," Sandhurst-bred Major Powell, 49, quit after 28 years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting...