Word: joblessness
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...morning last week when he got to the plant gates, he discovered that a quickie strike had been called, and that more than 300 structural steelworkers and machinists were refusing to go to work. Their reason: as long as there were 3,000 jobless in Omaha, the company shouldn't go and hire a foreigner. Stefan loitered uncomprehendingly outside the plant for some time before he discovered that he was what the fuss was all about...
...Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...that unemployment-insurance payments were costing the State of New York $7,500,000 a week, the State Labor Department made a harsh decision: from now on, the jobless would have to stay home instead of having their checks sent to vacation spots from the Catskills to Florida...
...climate had changed. With 600,000 ex-G.I.s and other new recruits added to the labor force since last year, the number looking for jobs was increasing considerably faster than the number of new jobs. Thus, even if employment picked up as much as expected, the number of jobless would rise almost as fast...
Most raucous needier was a zoot-suited, jobless young Puerto Rican named Fred Boysen, who had somehow wangled a $2.50 box seat. Boysen's view, as he expressed it later, is that "the fun of baseball" is kibitzing; a big-league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen...