Word: joblessness
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...Washington, Congressmen droned over the Murray Full Employment Bill. In Manhattan, Henry Wallace's publishers rushed his Sixty Million Jobs into bookstores. Throughout the U.S., politicos and pundits considered the plight of jobless war workers. All agreed that...
Hunger & Relief. There was still no comprehensive picture of what Japanese rule had done to China's cities and countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai still had her factories; once their wheels rolled, the metropolis would hum again and Shanghai might well be the mirror of the nation's revival...
Negotiations for other German documents were under way. In cafés and even in prison compounds, discredited diplomats, jobless generals and plain sad sacks talked copyright laws and literary prices. It was still an eighth wonder of the post V-E world that the Chicago Daily News had paid Edda Ciano $75,000 for her late husband's dreary diary...
...Stoneham, Mass., Basil Tasker, 47, father of three and jobless since Christmas because he had to stay home with the kiddies, went wooing through the advertising columns, soon had 50 applicants for his hand...
Upton Sinclair, best-selling socialistic novelist and pamphleteer, onetime politician and part-time prophet, gloomily predicted a postwar period of "hilarious prosperity" directly followed by a worldwide deflation, resulting in 30 or 40,000,000 jobless in the U.S. alone...