DAZZLING!
TANTALIZING !
She Loved...
for the sheer thrill of loving...
for the adoration she saw in men's eyes.......for the handy wine of a lingering kiss. Claudette Colbert us rock- loss, ravishing Zess--whose heart was too bly for just one love!
ZAZA
Claudette Colbert "ZAZA" Herbert Marshall
Bert Lahir Helen Washey. - Constance
Collier Cenevieve John Walter Calvetn
Directed by George Cukor - Pradarré by Alkalinia
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Despite attempts by Government spokesmen to minimise the effects of the sharp rise in unem- ployment, experts are seriously alarmed.
It is realised that there is little or no possibility of reducing the figure below the present total of 2,000,000 unless swift and drastic action is taken to provide work and maintain consuming power.
Judging by statements made re- The Committec, under the chair- cently by Ministers, the Govern-manship of Sir William Beveridge, ment has no intention of taking has never accepted the Government's action. It prefers to disguise its assurances that unemployment is failure by saying that only 289,000 being cured. have been out of work for a year or
more.
In fact, this figure gives no in- dication whatever of the hard core of unemployment.
£90,000 A WEEK
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over the years 1936-1947 Cent.
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That means in cold figures that from now until 1948, unemployment is expected to average 2,750,000. During the last two months the Unemployment Insurance Fund has A man who has a week's work been eating into its £46,000.000 aur- after years of unemployment is plus at the rate of £90,000 a week. automatically removed from the. The Committee is also working on Is still, rising.
Meanwhile, category although by no stretch of the advice of Mr. H. D. Henderson, the imagination can he be said to of the Economic Advisory Council, employers are have been absorbed back into in- that a "relatively severe recession titude of min dustry.
of employment is to be expected on Actually no statistical investiga-the completion of the intensive phase pitate the crisi tion into this aspect of the problem of the defence programme." has been made for many years.
The significance of the forthcom-
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Unemployment
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Despite evid fits, they have of the enginee increases.
Sir Alexánd
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which rearmament has necessitated, that the "imp
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