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Show RANKS OF JOBLESS CLIMB-WOO WASHINGTON. Dec. 2J (JP A works progress administration official offi-cial estimated today that 2.000,000 persons had become unemployed since September 1 and that 1.000,-000 1.000,-000 mora might ba out of Jobs by the end of February. These estimates were made by Leon Henderson, consulting economist econo-mist while preparations were being made for a senate unemployment investigation beginning January 4. . Henderson gave no estimates of the total number now out of work. Tha labor department reported yesterday yes-terday that industrial employment fell off 68 per cent last month 870.000 workers losing their Jobs. |