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...Area Redevelopment Administration has invested more than $2,500,000 in helping to solve the unemployment problem in Hazleton. Over $150,000 of this amount was a grant, the balance loans. Said Dr. Dessen, "ARA hits Hazleton like a breath of spring." All praise to the hardworking, intelligent community leaders who have helped Hazleton back to economic stability. But let's not forget that their work could not have been accomplished without considerable aid from the state of Pennsylvania and the Federal Government. Which is as it should be. WILLIAM L. BATT JR. Administrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...grants and loans for a rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will accept such tokens of ARA generosity as a ski lift or waterworks or a sewer line at the expense of every taxpayer." Notable ARA projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Seduction by Subsidy | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Albany, Ind., because three paint sprayers and three wood finishers were needed for seasonal work in a plywood plant, ARA decided to start a $30,000 training course for such workers. The company's employment office protested that the course was unnecessary, only to be told by someone from ARA: "You will have a training program whether you like it or not." The project bogged down when no teachers could be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Seduction by Subsidy | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Wheeling, W. Va., the ARA granted a $272,000 loan to build a rifle plant after the Small Business Administration refused to give the loan. The company failed to get a contract, and the plant stands empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Seduction by Subsidy | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Leftwich ("Gigi") Graham, 17, eldest of Evangelist Billy Graham's five children; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, son of Millionaire Financier Ara Tchividjian, the Baptist minister's most active Swiss supporter; in a religious ceremony (which followed by six days the mandatory Swiss civil ceremony) that was presided over by Graham, who also gave the bride away; in Montreux, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 10, 1963 | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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