Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nourse. Dr. Edwin Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, missed the hearing entirely. Dr. Nourse, a tall, white-haired man, is an able, middle-of-the-road economist who was once vice president of Washington's Brookings Institution. He skipped nimbly out of town, evidently too horrified by the idea of an anti-inflation bill to get into the argument...
...Town Bar, the bartender stared ruefully at his customers and grumbled: "I haven't sold enough whisky since the first of the year to bother taking the corks out of the bottles. Just beer-beer and more beer." His business was off 40%. "I'm better off than some of the boys," he added, "because I'm just around the corner from the Michigan unemployment bureau. I get a chance to cash their checks...
Jackson (pop. 60,000) has never been a rich town. In the best times, most of its people make less than $3,500 a year. Its chief industries are automobile parts and railroading. There have been layoffs at the machine shops, some of them seasonal, some of them not. Then the New York Central laid off 450 all at one crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things...
There were more idlers on the streets. Bowling alleys were filled nightly with spectators who came in for a free show. By day men scoured the town for work. A theater manager who was installing a septic tank at his new home outside of town said: "A couple of days ago three fellows came out and asked if they could have the job. I told them they could do the digging at a dollar an hour. They took it. Why, Jackson hasn't seen such prices in the building business since before...
Fugitives from Nanking and Shanghai snarled and haggled their way through Canton's grimly thorough customs inspectors, then burst into a boom town. Canton this week was Reno and Juarez, Galveston and Eldorado-all wrapped up in dazzling, neon-splashed tapestry...