Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jobless seniors can find first-hand information on opportunities in their region or their field in general by contacting alumni advisers in their area over spring vacation. Alexander Clark (pictured above). Director of the Office of Student Placement, said yesterday...
...Canada had gone into the struggle a raw-material-producing nation, and had emerged from it with a fully manned industrial machine dominating the country's economy. Since the machine was largely government-owned, the government had to decide whether to shut it down, leaving hundreds of thousands jobless, or try to keep it running for peacetime purposes. Prophets of doom were sure that the factories would be deserted, that a heartbreaking depression would sweep the country. Taking over as Minister of Reconstruction, Howe thought otherwise. Said he: "If there is any country in the world where unrestrained optimism...
While some civilian goods centers (e.g., Detroit and Providence) have been hard hit by unemployment, defense centers (e.g., San Diego and Indianapolis) were short of help. But the jobless showed few signs of abandoning seniority, pension plans, etc., in their old plants and moving...
...jobs: Foreign Minister Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister and Georges Bidault in Defense. Faure's cabinet, in fact, looks much like the last one, except that it is weaker at the top: Edgar Faure, on the record, is no match for Rene Pleven, who is now jobless. No one was ready to bet that Faure would last long...
...that the U.S. cannot get the guns it needs without disrupting more of the economy. In 1952, many less essential businesses may go broke for lack of materials. Unemployment will rise as workers are shifted from peace to war production. (In Detroit, 7% of the workers were already jobless at year's end.) And the U.S. will have to do with far fewer peacetime goods. As more & more metal is used up for arms, autos, refrigerators and all consumer hard goods will...