Alternatively, they would be obliged to ask for state assistance. Such was the soul-destroying humiliation of wending one’s way through the vetting means test procedure that few took that course for the few shillings it might provide if successful.
The last recorded outflow of population from the US was at the height of the Great Depression, in 1935. More than 100,000 chose the Soviet Union as their new place of residence.
The landowner received one-third of their harvest as rent, a customary but heavy price to pay, leaving the Browns with just enough to scrape by – though ‘enough’ was a relative term in the tough economy of rural North Carolina.
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