Word: joblessness
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British skippers, haughtiest in the world, who gasped with astonishment when Herbert Hartley was given the Leviathan in 1923 ahead of "Handsome Harry" Cunningham-gasped because Hartley was then jobless after grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...
...Magazine of Business, careful, reliable, states in its February issue that for every hundred men who hunted jobs in 1921 (when in recent history the jobless were most numerous), 122 are now looking for work...
...computes the total number of Harvard men at 50,000-a liberal figure and assumes that all jobless and disgruntled sons of Harvard are registered at Wadsworth House, the proportion is very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...
...inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
Jobs. At this time last year some 2,000,000 workers were jobless; but today this figure has shrunk...