Word: plights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is much that can be done to relieve the plight of the unemployed, yet the President has assumed that conditions will work themselves out in time. On a more positive level, state and local governments are fast using up their relief funds, and for many workers, unemployment benefits, which are generally paid only for a 26-week period, are fast being exhausted...
When the Broyles oath law was passed in Illinois in 1955, we predicted that it would "catch" no subversives and serve only to harass people of conscience. The plight of ex-janitor Hjalmar Andersson is only one evidence of this. We look to the day when the legislature will undo its 1955 handiwork...
...Peanuts. "In such a contest we have abundant ammunition. We do not need to bring up the military catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scientific catastrophe of losing our atomic secrets. Nor do we need to dwell on policies that led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the plight of our defenses when the invasion began, nor the handcuffs put upon our conduct of that war. We need not even refer to the tragic loss of China, nor the surrender of positions of freedom throughout the world. We can also ignore at the moment the wasteful and crippling defense...
...Carloadings were down 19.8% last week from the same week last year, after ending 1957 at their lowest point since the 1930s. Net income in November, the last reported month, was down 33% from two years before. The business recession played its part in the railroad's current plight, but that was not the main problem railroadmen had come to lay in Congress' lap. The real trouble with U.S. railroads, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is the maze of Government controls that prevents them from working out their own problems...
...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...