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has been run down in traffic.

4. "Give name of last employer - reason for leaving." The applicant, a veteran, writes: "Factory shut down." We are shown a factory town, the shabby ill-built houses stained with smoke and soot. We see the shut-down factory with its "Closed Until Further Notice" sign. There follows an eviction from a company house; a family is broken up. Men and boys are seen jumping onto a freight train. Some, veterans, are on the march to Washington to press for relief in the form of a bonus. The episode ends with the evacuation scene of the veterans being chased down Pennsylvania Avenue by tanks and steel-helmeted troops.

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5. "Occupational Class?" The next applicant writes "Farmer" as his occupation. We are shown a typical isolated dirt farm on a rainy morning. The housewife goes about her chores in the rain. We see the out-of-door pump, from which water must be carried to the house, the outside privy, the absence of utilities, the many inconveniences with which the farm wife has to cope. The children start off to their school, which is several miles away, wading along muddy roads. We are shown the one-room country school with