The year 2020 saw panic buying of toilet paper. The year 2021 saw panic buying of gasoline.
This was posted on Facebook by Michael Wayne Hurst on May 10, 2021:
“Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs so everybody panics and gets one.”
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Michael Wayne Hurst
May 10, 2021 at 5:35 PM ·
Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs so everybody panics and gets one
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Greg Cody
@Codydawg
Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs so everybody panics and gets one
8:48 PM · May 10, 2021 from Smyrna, GA·Twitter for Android
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Alisha Whitehead
May 10, 2021 at 6:57 PM ·
Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs so everybody panics and gets one
Twitter
David
@CFPCOOL
Replying to
@charliekirk11
Maybe his administration should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs like fuel so everyone panics and goes out and takes any job like they do when panicking they will run out of fuel
12:14 AM · May 11, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Beatrix Kiddo
@Beatrix1313
Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs so everybody panics and gets one
#gasshortage #Jobs #JobsReport #Biden #BidenGasLines
7:04 AM · May 11, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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Josh Vickery
@joshtvickery
Posting this from someone else but #bigfacts
“Someone should start a rumor of a shortage of jobs, so everyone panics and goes and gets one”
10:19 AM · May 11, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Facebook
Lynette Colosimo Jolicoeur
May 11, 2021 at 9:06 PM ·
Someone should start
a rumor of a shortage
of jobs so everybody
panics and gets one.
Twitter
The Bloodstone ™
@BS2KZ
Somebody should start a rumor on a shortage of jobs. So everybody panics and gets one..
10:28 PM · May 11, 2021·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Cloyd Rivers
@CloydRivers
Someone should start a rumor that there’s a shortage of jobs so everyone panics and goes out and gets one. Merica.
7:30 PM · May 12, 2021·Hootsuite Inc.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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