Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since early August, 2,855 Youngstown steelworkers and their families have gone on relief (average payment: $20 per month per person), but the strikers on relief, mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans, make up only 9% of the city's 31,000 steelworkers. The others are scraping along on the savings that they hoarded up in anticipation of the strike and on the liberal credit granted by Youngstown's strike-seasoned merchants...
Returning to Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
Last week, in response to Gomulka's pleas, Russia grudgingly agreed to sell the Poles 3,000 tons of meat-about one day's supply. Greater relief might come from Washington, where visiting Polish Agriculture Minister Edward Ochab was reportedly negotiating for $50 million in U.S. surplus food. But in the long run, Wladyslaw Gomulka and his planners were clearly committed to the proposition that Poland's only salvation lies in a return to collectivization. Difficulty was that they dared not try to bring it back by force, were reduced instead to touting a voluntary system...
...winner, appropriately enough, was Sherry, who won two of the Dodgers' games and saved the other two. The relief star made the difference in a World Series in which neither team had a complete game from its pitching staff...
...China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...