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...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...
Most of the young men in Selective Service's problem are conscientious objectors who were plucked from other camps as troublemakers and sent to Camp Germfask, Mich. Officials had hoped that at Germfask, an old CCC camp on the 95,000-acre Seney Wild Life Refuge in northern Michigan, the troublemakers might mend their ways. But there has been little reformation...
...much higher in 1945. This fact came out last week when War Food Administrator Marvin Jones bravely marched up Capitol Hill to ask the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to: 1) extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp., which expires June 30, for two more years; 2) expand CCC's borrowing power from $3 billion to $5 billion...