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...unemployed workers in the U. S. at the end of February. During the previous eleven months 4,592,000 had found jobs-34.8% of the all-time high figure of 13,200,000 in March 1933. Scrupulous was the Conference Board to count as unemployed 4,000,000 CWA workers, 300,000 Government woodsmen...
...areas are reclaimed, slumdwellers swarm into whole new areas, blighting them like locusts. Nevertheless, the PWA has earmarked $25,000,000 for Manhattan slum-clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted. The Housing Authority has the power of eminent domain but in Manhattan courts fat awards in condemnation proceedings are the rule. Vast areas of the slums are held by small real estate speculators, many...
...week's temporary success with dogs, Dr. Cornish will try to revive no more human corpses until he can nurse '"dead" animals to complete recovery. Onetime staffmember of the University of California's Institute of Experimental Biology, he has been carrying on with the aid of CWA funds...
...shot through the poverty-stricken little colony of 250 at Bolinas. All that night the beach was bright with torches and bonfires, moving with bent shadows. Miles Pepper, 12, was the first in his family of eleven to hear what had happened. Father Pepper had just been dropped from CWA. A bank had just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later he burst back, shouting that there were heaps...
...Bolinas touched a new high. Ralph Kenyon, 24, father of twins, who had just received his last CWA check, had found 75 lb. Cried he: "I've always been poor. Now I can build a home and educate my children." Mail Carrier Harold Henry and wife stopped worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated...