Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret fund, pass out generous pay checks to writers and editors, but foreign Governments also contribute. During the Ethiopian crisis of 1935 the Italian Government bought a few editorial pages. The way some prominent Paris newspapers have handled their German "news" recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around. In pot & kettle fashion, Leftist editors have cried that the Rightist press lived on funds from Germany and Italy, while Rightist editors pictured the Leftist press getting gold from Moscow...
...About one man in four and one woman in three found, in his or her first job, the kind of work he or she wanted, but nearly a third of the men and a fifth of the women took unsatisfactory jobs because no others were available...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...tenth of the men started their own business or professional office the first year out; by the eighth year nearly a third were their own bosses...
...whole group (out of college one to eight years), less than half the men and about a third of the women were married. After eight years out, a quarter of the men were still bachelors, half the women still spinsters...