Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
While newsmen hate to see a paper fold, few tears were shed for the Enquirer even by its jobless staff. It had never been a first-rate daily. Started as a sickly semiweekly in 1886, the Enquirer was bought by Hearst in 1922 for a reputed half-million dollars. He consolidated it with the Oakland Daily Post, which he had started in 1917, banking on the industrial growth of Oakland. Oakland grew, all right, but so did the Post-Enquirer's formidable rival, Joseph Knowland's* Oakland Tribune (TIME...
Bandless and jobless, Mohammedanized Trumpet Player Dizzy Gillespie, high priest of polyphonic jazz, was forced to admit to Down Beat that bop was done for: "Everybody wants you to play what they call dance music. What they mean is that ticky-ticky-tick stuff...
...resulting from the Korean war. Employment reached 61,482,000 in June, said the Census Bureau, within a shade of the 1948 high, and was still rising. With unemployment close to a bottom of 3,384,000 (v. 8,300,000 in June of 1940), there was no big jobless pool to draw from for new armament orders...
...reported . . . there is a surplus of jobless Puerto Ricans in New York. So we proceed to fly several thousand more from Puerto Rico to Michigan, to harvest the sugar-beet crop for sugar which might better have been made from Puerto Rican cane in the first place...