Word: joblessness
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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...
...Jobless, speaking a strange tongue, crowded into miserable tenements, thousands soon turned up on the relief rolls, costing the city $15,600,000 a year. Their children crowded the already crowded public schools. With shrill cries of outrage and alarm, the sensational journals gave tongue, blaming them for every civic woe. Feature writers found them living five and six to a room, two and three families to an apartment, in cellars and abandoned stores, even in coalbins. The average Puerto Rican was pictured heaving his disease-racked body off the plane and heading straight for a relief center. More sinister...