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...Deal had already spent $736,000,000 to put 350,000 idle city-bound youngsters in CCC camps, $14,000,000 to help students stay in college. Much of NYA's work was to be along the same lines. About 150,000 youths, drawn exclusively from families on Relief, would be given work relief jobs at $15 per month, set to building Youth Centres, taking a Youth Census. About 100,000 high-school youths would get $6 per month for carfare, lunch, incidentals. About 120,000 college undergraduates would get $15 per month and a selected few thousand would...
Near Brownstown, Ind. last fortnight Harold Jankowitz, 20, CCC worker, chewed the head off a blacksnake for $1. Said he: "I didn't really bite its head off. I mostly pulled it off. The snake was too tough." Worker Jankowitz added the $1 to a fund with which he hopes to pay for an eye operation so he may take a West Point entrance examination...
...Chicago up to 1929. Scouts from the big corporations were seen on campuses for the first time since 1930. Employers like General Electric, Firestone, Goodyear were looking for men to fill their training schools. The Government was in the market for civil and agricultural engineers, economics and business graduates, CCC camp teachers. Best industrial field appeared to be selling, with more jobs to be had on straight salaries. Chemistry, engineering, manufacturing and banking looked good. Worst field, by long odds: brokerage...
...announcement disposed of less than 5% of his spending job. He had already indicated he would spend $600,000,000 on CCC, doubling the size of the Conservation Corps. And Administrator Harry Hopkins took over $113,000,000 for April relief (of which Georgia was assigned none and Pennsylvania only a half share because both States failed to contribute on a scale that Mr. Hopkins thought was fair). That left the President with an embarrassment amounting to not quite...
...empire. In 100 days the 73rd Congress patched together the crumbling U. S. banking system, set up the $2,000,000,000 Home Owners' Loan Corp., created NRA, substituted beer for Prohibition, confiscated all the gold in the U. S., appropriated $3,300,000.000 for public works, established CCC, TVA, FERA. AAA, cut veterans' pensions and, for good measure, put J. P. Morgan on the witness stand and a midget on his knee...