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...Refused to answer a newshawk who asked: "Has there been any waste of Federal money in giving farm or drought relief to the farmers of Kansas...
...Detoured for some drought inspection of his own while returning to Topeka from Des Moines, chatted with a few farmers, was stopped by pouring rain...
...debt retirement and interest on public debt would be up. In addition, the sum of all other expenditures would be $448,986,000 over 1936. chiefly because of public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular columns. If the Drought's aftermath was as bad as anticipated, or if private industry failed to take enough men off relief rolls, he warned, he might have to ask Congress to add an extra $500,000,000 for relief to his total figure...
Waste (Bobbs-Merrill, 50?) by the same author is an engineer's popularization of the problems of soil erosion, drought, deforestation, soil fertility, etc. Towards the end Waste marches on into a New Deal view of unemployment and relief. Potentiality: 25,000 votes for Roosevelt...
...butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed...