![I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-thought-i-was-making-fifty-dollars-a-week-at-mgm-but-it-turned-out-to-be-dollar35.jpg)
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