Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes to assist State and local agencies in building thousands of low-rent homes, announced that U. S. H. A. has arranged with A. F. of L.'s construction unions to settle all such arguments in advance. In return for a guarantee that wages prevailing when a project is started shall be paid until the job is done, the unions agreed to postpone any jurisdictional strikes until the Housing Authority and A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department have had ample time to mediate...
...many a hard-working businessman, scornful of boondoggling, the letters WPA mean We Putter Away. Last week the Works Progress Administration ceased preliminary puttering, began work on a project to delight every manufacturer and merchant in the land. Businessmen have been increasingly confused by 44 Federal and State fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through...
...bill to do precisely that is the joint pet project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...
...borrowed $2,000,000 for their cooperative from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. What Governor Murphy called the "beginning of a new social order" for The Thumb, which will eventually own 1,300 miles of REA lines, was also a milestone for REA, the most extensive and expensive project it had yet promoted...
...rate the Government pays on its own long-term obligations, currently 2.77%. Both REA and Electric Home and Farm Authority finance the purchase of electrical appliances, making loans not to consumers but to dealers. Only four States-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island-are without at least one REA project. Leading customers are Ohio, with 7,000 miles of lines, Wisconsin (6,100 miles), Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Texas...