Word: workless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile mothers with babes, laborers in workless working clothes who bought stamps last week, leered at the figure of the Goddess of Plenty printed on them, promptly dubbed her "Surplus...
...ever say anything positive about Hitler? Is it not great enough a deed to have united, without bloodshed, all the Germans (since Charlemagne thousands of great Germans have fought for the idea in vain), to have saved us from another inflation, to have given work to all our workless...
...city's biggest industry, normally employing one-seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted not only the proposed labor peace treaty and the 15% cut, which would reduce minimum wages from $13 to $9.60 per week, but also the principle of determining pay scales on a "competitive cost basis." This would mean Southern wages in Northern...
Last week, as for many a week before, proposals to palliate, if not cure, the Depression cropped up hopefully throughout a world in which 30,000,000 workers are workless...
...what she can produce herself) would be supplied exclusively by Britain-this agreement to be, of course, in return for complete Indian independence. "Tear His Eyes Out!" St. Gandhi had set out for Lancashire to drive a bargain by which he thought both sides would gain-but would hungry, workless Lancashire understand? Was the 76-lb. Mahatma's life safe? Scotland Yard sent with him four detectives (each over 200 lb.), just in case. Darwen, black focus of Lancashire depression, was Inspector Gandhi's objective, but Scotland Yard bundled him off his train at nearby Springvale Village. There...