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...Killed NYA, NRPB...
...President listed more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...
...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
...Went NYA. The National Youth Administration asked for $47,800,000. It got $3 million with which to liquidate itself...
Mothered by Eleanor Roosevelt, shepherded since 1935 by ex-WPAster Aubrey Williams, NYA spent $646 million training 16-to-24-year-olds, latterly for war production...