Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question now was what to do with it. The CCC could be authorized to sell it below the parity price-at a loss of millions of dollars. Furthermore, British Commonwealth operators, determined to hang on to the U.S. market, would undoubtedly cut their prices below CCC's. U.S. wool-growers still clamored for Government support, which meant that more & more domestic wool would be dumped into the Government's lap, would have to be resold somehow, somewhere...
...keep the price up), has done most of the exporting for the U.S. since war's end. It has found cotton so hard to sell that it is now arranging to ship some 1,000,000 bales to Germany and Japan to get their spindles going again. But CCC kept mum on the price, gave no hint of when it expects to be finally paid off. CCC still has nearly 5,000,000 bales on hand-and few buyers...
...Commodity Credit Corp. offered to raise the price to $3.67½, for the 1946 crop. This was satisfactory to Cuba, but Congress so far had not given the CCC authority to pay a subsidy to absorb the increase. The retail price boost was the only solution...
...emergency agencies, with impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...
...architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...