Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conceived in the President's First Inaugural Address, and born in April 1933, CCC had one of the best records of all New Deal hopefuls. From city and farm the Corps rescued thousands of jobless youths. During its busiest month in 1935, it housed as many as 505,782 boys in more than 2,000 camps throughout the nation. Up & down the land, CCCers built roads, carved trails, cleared parks, reforested, learned crafts, fought fires. The most rabid opponents of New Deal spending admitted that CCC was worthwhile...
...gave youth something more toughly tangled than woodsy trails to worry about. CCC camps recently dropped to 400, enrollment to 80,000 boys. But even that was 400 camps too many for some Congressmen. CCC boys, they pointed out, now came mainly from rural districts where they were badly needed...
...cotton, unlike industry, these worlds are not so very different from each other. CCC men believe that win-the-war policy ought to mesh as closely as possible with win-the-peace policy. For the present, the job is to see that no Good Neighbor sags in its economic joints through loss of its export markets to war. Afterwards, the grand strategy will look something like this...
Some help may come from lumber dealers, who have devised handy, prefabricated farm storage bins. And CCC may transfer from Iowa corn country some 17,000 steel bins used to store excess corn surpluses. (Big demand for hogs and alcohol have emptied these corn bins, which hold...
...this year the problem is twice as tough. The Northwest railroads think they can handle it again-given the same cooperation, given new farm storage space, barring accidents. One such accident, mentioned in Minneapolis by CCC's regional director: suppose Alaska and Siberia become a theater of war? In that case the railroads might have no free cars to take wheat off the farms, even if there were elevator space to take...