Word: joblessness
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...week. The truth was, however, that Nehru looked bad. For several weeks he had suffered acute insomnia; he had flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru had ordered his secretary off the plane...
...Olin Johnston said he "makes me sick with fear." At week's end, in his first and only speech of the campaign, former President Harry Truman labeled Wilson's words "the attitude of too many big-business spokesmen in the Republican Party." In Buffalo the C.I.O. handed jobless men cans of dog food...
...claims for jobless benefits declined to 240,000, the lowest level in a year...
...remarkable fact about the dip is that it was just about the mildest recession in U.S. history. While in some places, notably in Detroit and in New England's mill towns, unemployment has been acute, in terms of the total work force it has been small. The highest jobless total was 3,700,000 v. more than 4,000,000 in 1949. Last week the Government reported the figure at 3,099,000, virtually unchanged for three months straight. Industrial production, which has also held steady for the past few months, never dropped more than 10% and stayed well...
...Government nimbly reversed its policy, followed through with more liberal housing laws and the biggest tax cut in history ($7.5 billion). The change in policy cost the Administration a balanced budget. But, just like the Truman Administration, the Republicans thought a balanced budget not worth paying for with more jobless, less business expansion and falling sales...