Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growers can reclaim their cotton for private sale. But if prices start downward, an artificial scarcity is created. For eleven years cottongrowers have unloaded their surpluses on the U.S. taxpayer, and have used the taxpayer's money to build a firm floor under cotton prices. CCC cotton holdings last month: seven million bales...
...President listed more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...
...schooling was interrupted after the eighth grade. To help support the family Cas had to go to work. He caddied, sold papers and worked in a pottery and a steel foundry. One year he spent in a Utah CCC camp. Only after three years could Cas start high school...
...authority and the money for the 90%-of-parity support under farm prices, yet Franklin Roosevelt still retained the authority of the price control bill to use any money he can dig up for food subsidies. Hurriedly, the House farm bloc got up a simple resolution merely extending CCC. The Senate, not in such a hurry, began again to tack on anti-subsidy amendments. And many a Congressman, convinced that subsidies would not work, smiled-and waited...
...Washington, Studebaker vigorously promoted Negro education and vocational education of the unemployed, the teaching of CCC boys, the coordination of U.S. educational activities. When war loomed he organized the $75,000,000 Federal program for training skilled labor. He kept on pushing for adult education by public discussion and the radio...