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...piling up. In January, the Department of Commerce reported, manufacturers' sales had taken more than seasonal drops, and inventories had jumped by $400 million, about twice the seasonal increase. Unemployment was still on the rise. The Bureau of the Census reported an estimated total of 3,200,000 jobless in February, highest since 1942. But the rate of increase had slowed up. New claims for unemployment compensation have dropped sharply in the last month. And there were still more people working than in any other February in U.S. history...
Norway recognized this hard fact. And her sympathies remained unbudgeably with the West. Back in Halvard Lange's Oslo, Nils Evensen, 34-year-old cabbie, pointed to his new streamlined Studebaker taxi and said: "If I had to wait for a Russian car, I'd be jobless all my life...
...girls are typical of Adelheide's population. Nervous, dark-haired Irma was working in a textile mill in the Russian zone when the millowners and technicians suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
...drop in consumer demand had brought a buyers' market in textiles, electric appliances and many another line, it was also bringing something like a buyers' market in labor. There was a sharp rise in the number of jobless in some states. The layoffs were also caused by a seasonal slump in building, and shutdown for inventory-taking, retooling, etc. In New York, the number getting unemployment benefits jumped from 320,544 in November to 461,280. But in such places as Pittsburgh and Detroit, there was no letup...
...poodle or when she called at midnight to order a Page One makeover. She knew how to get stories too. She once walked out of an ambassador's dinner party, changed to old clothes, and spent the night in a flophouse to get material for a series on jobless girls...