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...children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first $100,000,000, later $300,000,000 a year, for education...
...Passed a bill requiring the capital of the Commodity Credit Corporation to be maintained at $100,000,000, thereby obliging the Treasury to replenish its funds when they are less than that amount and obliging the CCC to turn over to the Treasury its surplus when...
...strength of this apparent success with Felton preventive vaccine, doctors in other CCC camps have inoculated 150,000 more men this winter, leaving a second 150,000 untreated. By doing so they will give Dr. Felton and other conservatives scientific evidence of the value of his vaccine...
Last week, however, the Army Medical School, whose technicians Dr. Felton helped to make the vaccine by the gallon, reported that not one of 15,000 CCC men vaccinated last summer with Felton vaccine has yet developed pneumonia. Of another 15,000 men in the same camps, who were not inoculated, several have come down with pneumonia. (Statisticians were still waiting for the pneumonia season to end before making a final count of the casualties...
Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...