Handicapped workers during this time period often faced discrimination by employers that often feared that hiring handicapped laborers would increase their insurance rates and increase their own liability for providing workers compensation benefits.
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Segments include a Busby Berkeley-style dance number featuring people in wheelchairs while deaf people sign the song lyrics, a phony TV commercial in which comedian Carl Ballantine touts handicapped workers as if he were a hard-sell used car salesman, and several more.
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By its own estimations, the Society annually provides services to more than 105 000 of lonely elderly people, about 23 000 of people disabled during the Second World War and handicapped workers, more than 25 000 of war veterans, and more than 8 000 of adults handicapped since childhood.
