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Mesta boasts that the only limit to the size of a machine part that it can turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...Virginia. Thus was launched a prime New Deal scheme, sprung largely from the mind and heart of long-legged, dynamic Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, to give homes and garden-factory livelihoods to stranded U. S. families. Since that time the Government has made a start on 61 other Subsistence Homestead projects, but the one at Reedsville remains the most significant...
...June 1934, 50 houses were almost or entirely finished. One was occupied. Out of its $25,000,000 Subsistence Homestead fund the Interior Department had spent on the project $437,645-not including about $140,000 worth of work by CWA, CCC and FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
...head of a band of 104 settlers, sallow, thin-faced Ethan Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...Enough (TIME, May 29, 1933), The Executioner Waits carries nearer to completion Author Herbst's big portrait of the U. S. from post-Civil War times to the present, takes the Trexler family fortunes from 1918 to 1929. By now the Trexlers are far dispersed from their Pennsylvania homestead: to California, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington. Only one of them has gone up in the world, and for him, as for his capitalist brothers, Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they can to keep from slipping...