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...South Carolina's politicians decided that, as their share of PWA's millions, they would take $6,000,000 (as a starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud...
...January 1938, unable to borrow anywhere else, it got $8,233,000 from RFC to pay its wages (it already owed RFC $80,000,000). In June, without collateral for another loan, it met a $1,700,000 debt only because Jesse Jones arranged for PWA to buy the road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week...
...Conservative design habits account for the curiously compromised appearance of so many PWA housing projects. Behind these and other errors stood a stupid officialdom which refused to recognize the enormous progress already made elsewhere. . . . From the first group [of U. S. H. A. designs] it is gratifyingly clear . . . that we may expect projects surpassing those of PWA both in efficiency and quality of design...
Reporters will travel on a pilot train running ahead of the royal special nonstop from the border to Washington. President & Mrs. Roosevelt will meet Their Majesties at 11 a. m. at Union Station, where the State reception suite* is being redecorated with $16,000 of PWA money. At the White House, the diplomatic corps will be received before Their Majesties lunch privately with the Roosevelts. After lunch will follow Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay's garden party at the British Embassy; that night, a state dinner and reception at the White House, where Their Majesties will sleep...
...Economy objective; at least, not at this session of Congress. John Garner, after 36 years in Congress, well knows that the President's taunt in his last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House." To the President he says: "There'll be no economy unless you lead...