Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look. Now they have 55 researchers and writers studying industrial trends, new businesses, new professions, the 22,000 ways to make a living in the U. S. Their findings are published in a monthly magazine, Vocational Trends, and pamphlets, are sold (cost of complete service: $17.50 a year) to CCC camps, 4,500 high schools, half the U. S. colleges and universities. Some findings...
...Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked a CCC team at Camp Goldendale. Wash. Last fortnight, having topped off their five-game season with a six-touchdown victory, they became, to the consternation of President Keezer and every self-respecting alumnus, one of the few unbeaten, untied college football teams...
...Kept Modified Repealed Deposit Insurance 84.7% 3.9% 3.1% CCC 78.1 11.4 7.4 Banking Act 64.7 14.0 3.8 Housing Act 56.9 19.0 19.6 Securities Exchange Act 44.5 34.2 3.6 Holding Co. Act 33.7 35.5 9.1 Wages & Hours Law 29.8 47.0 21.4 Social Security 24.3 57.9 17.3 WPA 12.1 41.7 44.4 Wagner Act 9.8 41.9 40.9 Undistributed Profits...
...could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either case to do a good job for aged pensioners, youthful school-reliefers, CCC, public health, employment service and the Office of Education. On condition that his friends be allowed to keep on booming him, radiant Mr. McNutt accepted. Proclaimed he: I am appreciative of the tremendous responsibility of administering such a program. There are some who say that it is too vast...
Last week the dapper Dictator docked at Miami, sped to Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party...