Word: joblessness
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...jobless, 179,000 were men, 34,000 were women. Biggest number of unemployed (82,000) were between the ages of 25 and 44; next biggest (42,000), between...
...Hardest-hit province was Quebec, with 75,000 jobless. Next was Ontario with...
...Jinnah, "a tall thin boy in a funny long yellow coat," as Poetess Sarojini Naidu described him, went to England. At the age of 16 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn to read law. Soon after Jinnah returned to India, his father lost his money. Three hard, jobless years followed, until briefs and money started coming...
...support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
...unfilled dugouts of the civil war house the jobless, the ragged, the hungry, the impoverished. On the great estates landless peasants toil for four pesetas (36?) a day. The black market thrives and bureaucrats and party men take fat cuts...