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...worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have buried $45,000 of "the queer" along with its engraving plates, the identity of the curiously assorted prisoners was made known...
...coming governor relies largely on the current taste for catchy abbreviations, with its NRA and RFC and OWA and CCC, to put over his election. His plan is the EPIC plan--End Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect...
...relief projects thus accounted for the entire deficit. When Mr. Morgenthau's clerks added them up and subtracted the small surplus, President Roosevelt was informed that his deficit was precisely $1,024,121,667 of which the chief items were: RFC $532,000,000; PWA $204,000,000; CCC...
...told that the Government is paying too little for anything. He retorted that if the dealer was "probably" breaking code law, that was a matter for the courts to decide, that the job of Secretary Wallace was to give the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The CCC needed some of its trucks in a hurry. A contract for 818 trucks was therefore grudgingly awarded to Ford Dealer Sabine, all to be delivered within six days at various points from Edgewater, N. J. to Kansas City...
...General Johnson had not yet abandoned all hope of getting even. Contracts for the rest of the CCC trucks and for 1,500 trucks for other government departments-on all of which dealer Sabine had bid-were still held...