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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the president's relief program has benefited the nation only history can say, But to prevent the impoverishment and demoralization of more than a million Americans, the immediate endorsement of President Roosevelt's recommendation is essential. As in the case of Lincoln's Civil War policy, the emergency relief program for 1939 will be gravely imperiled by any interference within the fiscal year. If it so desires, Congress will have ample time to "swap horses" when it gets to the other side of the stream...
...build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires 225,000 amperes-enough current to light a million and a half household lamps...
...Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street," and one Federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy...
Negley Farson was born too late. In the heydey of Harold Bell Wright he could not have failed, with that hero and those backwoods, to write an inspirational novel which would have sold a million...
Last week when FDIChairman Leo Crowley announced that $17,000,000 of the $21,500,000 loss was completely covered, that another million consisted of uninvested trust funds that were fully secured, Jersey City knew it had only a stomachache, not appendicitis...