November 1926 affects other people’ s jobs, and as a result, our production significantly decreases” However, in light of the protest, millions of people trekked from many cities around the U. S to head for the final match. What could be better than watching America’ s favorite pastime on a Sunday afternoon? An analyst at West Egg’ s The Daily Times, reported that“ … threequarters of the average American worker slacked off work to watch the World Series.” Yes indeed, the excitement of the game prompted people to forget about their jobs, and in some cases reality. And how was the economy impacted? Charlie McLaughlin, business professional at the Wall Street Company, reported that in the following days after the game, less people showed up to work.“ It may not have been all too significant,” he said,“ but the steel and engineering industry’ s production rate dropped 0.6 %.” The World Series did have an insidious consequence on our economy, but McLaughlin reassured us“ … that [ the economy ] will bounce back up again.”
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