Word: joblessness
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Between the Crops. But nobody denied that the union had the right valley, if the wrong man. Last week an estimated 40,000 farm laborers were jobless, watching their savings melt away between the early cotton and the delayed potato crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area...
...other was an excerpt from a column by Hearst's Harry Crocker, frequent escort of Actress Fontaine, noting an "inane attack in print by a certain female." "Hollywood," Crocker had written, "realizes that [such] ridiculous outbreaks are the result of her years of frustration as a jobless actress." Below, signed Joan Bennett, was the query: "This COULDN'T be you, could it, Hedda...
...Western Germany, the blue dismissal envelopes are going out to workers in factories and shops at the rate of 15,000 a day. Five hundred thousand Germans have been added to the unemployment rolls in the past two months; more than one worker in ten is now jobless. Only a fraction of the unemployment figures can be accounted for by the refugees from the Soviet zone, and ex-P.W.s coming home from Soviet prison camps. With a few exceptions (e.g., coal mines and steel mills), almost every industry has had to let workers go. Businessmen say: "Customers just aren...
...long would the bullishness last? As the stock market started off this week with a slight drop, many an investor kept a sharp watch on the growing troubles on the union front (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and a sharp increase in seasonal unemployment that boosted the jobless to 4,480,000, highest since the war. Until the labor troubles were settled, Wall Streeters thought it likely that the bull market might take a breather...
...every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this...