Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference to explain why the tariff-pampered steel industry had small ground for complaint. Obliged to bid 15% under domestic producers, to pay a tariff duty of roughly 25% ad valorem, to pay insurance and freight on shipments across the ocean, any foreigner who got PWA business would have to be satisfied with only about half of the fat prices demanded by U. S. producers...
...Pearson the President expressed the hope that he would accept in place of the $8,000 job of Governor the $8,000 job of Assistant Director of PWA Housing in charge of Public Welfare, "a post of honor...
...peek under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools...
...even though in doing so it may enter into competition with other public or private owners of property." Politics? Last week the Press commented widely on the fact that, though the TVA decision represented the unanimous opinion of one Republican and two Democratic judges, in both the AAA and PWA decisions a lone Democrat dissented from two Republican colleagues. Such finger-pointing caused the judicial New York Times to observe: "It would be foolish to contend that no judge is ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe to say that very few judges...
Caterpillar Tractor, now the No. 1 maker of Diesel engines in the U. S., has been a big beneficiary of the New Deal. Rising farm income and PWA expenditures, particularly for road building, boosted sales from $13,000,000 in the first half of 1934 to $18,700,000 this year. Profits for the half were up from...