Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readiest to go was WPA, where Adminstrator Harry Hopkins had only to say the word and thousands of added workers would be taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers...
Most of REA's cooperators are farmers in sparsely settled districts which the nearest private power company has put in "cold storage" until they become populous enough to be served with profit. To get an REA loan, farmers usually first organize a cooperative, convince REA field inspectors that they can afford to buy enough electricity to pay for the lines. Not grants in any sense, REA loans must under present policies be liquidated within 20 years. Interest runs at the rate the Government pays on its own long-term obligations, currently 2.77%. Both REA and Electric Home and Farm...
...Year Plan is the building of the Hermann Göring Iron Works, the production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the rebuilding of Berlin and Munich according to the Fuhrer's ambitious schemes. To provide labor for these and other purely Government projects, Field Marshal Göring, Four-Year Plan Commissioner, decreed a sensational labor conscription...
This week Field Marshal Göring extended even further State control over labor. He empowered labor officials to fix maximum rates of pay for work of all kinds, thus clamped down on rising labor costs...
...event of war, it did not preclude the possibility that Chancellor Hitler may one day gobble the nation whole. There are some 3,000,000 Germans, "racial comrades" of the Führer, within the nation's boundaries. Fully three-fourths of the population speak German. Reich Field Marshal Göring recently published in his National Zeitung a map of Greater Germany, prepared by Reich propagandists for school use, which pictured practically the whole of Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separation of the German people," announced...