its a 1930s radio show, is it ok?
and i wanna no how's the bagining and the ending of a news report in 1930s.
thx alot.
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Anchorman: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today is January 5, 1933, Tuesday. This is Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. The first program is a news report. [Pause for a second] Yesterday morning a man was found dead beside the railroad that connects Toronto and Winnipeg. The man was wearing a ragged coat with big boots, and carrying two knapsacks that contained some coins and food. The police reckon that the man perched on the top of the boxcar, and then got swayed off the car; he was probably trying to go to Toronto to look for jobs. Since the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday in 1929, people are becoming poorer, the unemployment rate is increasing exponentially, up to 24%, and the national productivity is dropping 35%. The whole country is now in a huge darkness of depression, and there is no dawn of recovery coming yet. In this depression, people are losing their jobs, businesses are shutting down, and the whole Canadian society is going through some changes. Pertaining to these issues, we have invited a professor from Harvard University. Let’s welcome Professor Henry. Hello professor.
Professor: Hello, sir. Nice to meet you.
Anchorman: Nice to meet you, too. So, professor, though Canada is in depression, a lot of people don’t know completely what causes the depression. So can you briefly talk about it?
Professor: There are a lot of causes. The main two are the over-expansion of companies and factories, and credit buying. When the market demand is less than the supply, industrialists begin to panic, and start to lay off workers. Also, a lot of people are encouraged by the advertising. “Buy now, pay later”. When people are doing credit buying but cannot pay back, they start to lose their houses, their cars, and furniture.
Anchorman: Thank you, professor. In the depression, individual family suffers a lot. So today, we also invited a man from a family. Hello Mr. Wilson.
Wilson: Hello, sir.
Anchorman: Would you like to introduce yourself?
Wilson: Hello, my name is Winter Wilson. I am very poor farmer from Saskatchewan. I have four daughters in my family. My wife died of typhoid several days ago.
Anchorman: Oh, I am sorry to hear that. Now would you like to describe your family life?
Wilson: Oh, it is terrible. I just want to say that I really miss ham and bacon. Now, we buy day(s) old milk from the dairies and day(s) old bread from the bakers, because it is much cheaper. And it is the best thing we can eat, and we have to learn 3000 ways to cook beans and oatmeal.
Anchorman: What about your neighbors?
Wilson: Neighbors? I don’t think there is anybody in the neighborhood except an 80-year-old man. Most of them gave up in despair and abandoned their farms, and they went out to look for job opportunities.
Anchorman: Have you ever gone out to searching for job opportunities?
Wilson: Yes, only once and I gave up. I didn’t have any new clothes for almost two years. When I went out to find a job, no one wanted to hire me when they saw my clothing. Also, the unemployed people will be give only vouchers that can exchange for food, rent, and other necessities, but they are not enough to feed my family. Besides, my family has lived on the prairie for several generations. I just can’t abandon it.
Anchorman: That is so sad. Thank you very much, Mr. Wilson. We have contacted the grocery store whose manager is willing to hire you.
Wilson: Oh, that’s incredible. Thank you.
Anchorman: No problem. Ok, ladies and gentleman, we will take a short break. During the break a piece of music will be played. Enjoy.
[Music is played]
Anchorman: Welcome back to our news report. So professor, do you have any comment on the interview?
Professor: Well, people in the West also suffer from natural disasters. The drought meant fewer products. The grasshopper plagues almost swept off all the crops. With the low price of the crops, the farmers can get no more than several pennies. That’s why a lot of people have abandoned their farms. It’s totally hopeless to stay in their old homeland. Then many unemployed people would wander from town to town. They would hide in boxcars; ride the rods underneath the trains, or perch on the top of the train, as the former news said.
Anchorman: Thank you, Professor, I have also noticed that the depression has different influence on men and women, and their roles have been changed. Would you like to talk about these topics?
Professor: Sure. In most societies, men have traditionally defined their principal roles as being providers and protectors; however, men without work tended to lose their authority within the family. Men whose self-perceived masculinity was a casualty of unemployment yearned for a return to what they believed to be the natural order of gender. This vis
