"Unemployment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little difference in conditions in the cities of Washington and Chicago as he hastened homeward. Buildings and streets appeared about as usual but the general populace appeared indifferent and unconcerned. Unemployment prevailed, but he seemed to contact more women in business places than he did in ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney
... floor of his office, chewing on his lower lip, and cursing the feeble imaginations of Ostreich and the rest of them. When his temper had cooled, he got sober thoughts of indictments, and law suits, and unemployment. With a sigh, he contacted the engineer on the roof of the Cannon Building. Then he went to the window, and watched Monica's thousand-foot face ...
— Get Out of Our Skies! • E. K. Jarvis
... get to a solution of his peculiarities was that he was not well and that a long course of unemployment and privation had resulted in his losing his grip. They took him as they found him, like the good scouts that they were, and their enterprise to earn a little money for improving their picturesque meeting-place at home seemed transformed into a collective, ...
— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... feeling, of national feeling, of public opinion, the policies of foreign governments. So is much news about what is going to happen. So are questions turning on private profit, private income, wages, working conditions, the efficiency of labor, educational opportunity, unemployment, [Footnote: Think of what guess work went into the Reports of Unemployment in 1921.] monotony, health, discrimination, unfairness, restraint of trade, waste, "backward peoples," conservatism, imperialism, radicalism, liberty, honor, righteousness. All involve data ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... further tests. Fears proof he causes malfunctioning of computer will cause unemployment here and may destroy all hope of hoped-for ...
— The Leader • William Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)
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