Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activities over to state, county or municipal housing authorities. The corporation's immediate objective is the acquisition of low-cost land "by private contract if possible, otherwise by eminent domain, which power is derived from the National Recovery Act." Unofficial estimates placed the corporation's initial fund...
...date. He reported that the C. C. C. was employing 300,000 young men, that 4,000,000 people (out of 10,000,000) had been put back to work, that the Government had allocated $2,100,000,000 out of its $3,300,000,000 public works fund, that "during the course of the year 1933 the farmers of the U. S. will receive 33% more dollars for what they have produced than they received in the year...
...pillars" of recovery were the NRA for industry, the A. A. A. for agriculture. Another pillar, "the money of the country in the banks of the country," was the subject of his unexpected, newsmaking conclusion. He promised a "sound managed currency" based on the equivalent of an exchange equalization fund. "I am authorizing the Reconstruction Finance Corp.," said he, "to buy gold newly mined in the U. S. at prices to be determined from time to time after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Whenever necessary to the end in view, we shall also...
...Government would fix its price at a different level from the world price for gold-or, if so, how far different. Buying & selling gold in the world market would influence exchange rates in the same way (but not necessarily with the same purpose) as setting up an equalization fund, might be used to keep the world price for gold close to the Roosevelt price. Obvious was one fact. President Roosevelt, trying to ride a Sound Money and an Inflation horse at the same time, had urged on Sound Money fortnight ago by announcing a long-term bond issue* (TIME...
...Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman's pig-fund idea. Like 80,000 others who learned from her, she sends toy pig banks to her friends. Proudly she recalled last week: "I started with six little pigs, and in the first year raised $45. Now in Richmond I am able to raise in good years $2,000 through 400 pigs...