Word: catch-basins
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...improvement of mass transportation, aid to education and schemes for aiding the employment of youth. But his State of the Union message made bows to all of these, promised more specific details in later messages to Congress. The President also urged the creation of a domestic Peace Corps-a catch-basin for idealism at home (see EDUCATION...
California, land of promise in times of prosperity and catch-basin of the penniless in this time of depression, has adopted heroic measures in regard to its "non-resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting...
...hunting, as well as a pet badger. The following highly dramatic account of their actions appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance for several days in the vain hope of recovering the property. In the meantime...
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