U.S.A. AFFAIR
FEW UNEMPLOYED
WASHINGTON, April 3. The U.S. Census Bureau reports: Unemployed in the United States totalled one million on March 31. The total is approaching an “irreducible minimum.” This figure compares with 3,600.000 last March and 10,983,000 in 1937. More than four hundred thousand workless persons have been absorbed in employment since the middle of February. These make the total labour force 50,000,000.
FRENCH SEAMEN.
NEW YORK, April 3.
Twelve French sailors who “jumped” the battleship Richelieu and other ships have been released from Ellis Island on five hundred dollars bail. They immediately went to Fighting French Headquarters where they celebrated their release. ' NEW’ YORK, April 3. Mr. W. A. Patterson, President of the United Air Lines, in a speech,
said that air transportation after the war would augment, but would not supplant, surface transportation. He pointed out that it would cost twenty-nine million dollars to carry a load from San Francisco to Australia by aircraft, a load which a ship could carry for 120,000 dollars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1943, Page 6
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