Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody pretended that the stagger system was anything more than a cure for economic snuffles, seasonal sprain and local dislocations: a real galloping case of economic depression would quickly empty the Massachusetts unemployment fund. Last week the fund was paying out $1,000,000 more than it was taking...
...Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this to go on, but oh boy, things would really be bad if they just laid off without the stagger...
...Lawrence would disagree. Mill-owners were glad to keep their labor force intact; unions had the stagger provision written into contracts. Said Arthur Brown, area director for the C.I.O.'s Textile Workers Union: "It costs the state no more to issue three consecutive compensation checks to three different men than to issue them to the same man. And if they just lay off, not only do the people who are unemployed stop buying, but so do the ones who are employed...
...spectator, whether starry-eyed undergraduate or ancient graduate, must do more than stagger to the Stadium tomorrow afternoon...
Barbara started skating when she was four years old. Someone strapped old-fashioned double runners to her booted feet and showed her out on the surface of a local pond. Unable to do more than skid and stagger, she wept, Kicked off the blades, and gave up skating...