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Having announced that PWA and RFC would make no further commitments, he was visited by Indiana's New Deal Senator, Sherman Minton. Mr. Minton left the White House, telling reporters ruefully: "I asked for a hell of a lot of PWA money and didn't get a dime...
...expenditures have been knocked off by Administrative action and another $115,000,000 by bookkeeping adjustments in the Old Age Reserve Account, a total reduction of $323,000,000. But reduced interest rates on loans to farmers will cost the budget $40,000,000; extension of PWA, $25,000,000; social security tax refunds. $36.000,000; the Railroad Retirement Act, $113,000,000; cotton loans...
...Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed at a cost of $11,500,000, $2,324,881 of which was contributed by Mr. Roosevelt's PWA...
...wall of the main circle. Gates of each unit will be so adjusted that no two can be open simultaneously. The whole structure will be enclosed by a circular tool resistant 12-ft. wire mesh fence. Cost of Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna will be $2.020,000. If PWA approves, construction will start by next December, last 14 to 16 months...
...municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much of it 15 years old, some of it nearly 30, reduced recoveries in suits against the city by 73%. In doing these and a thousand other things he had the benefit of Federal relief and PWA grants running into many millions and he imposed a 2% city sales tax, but no responsible civic group contends that the city has not got its money's worth, and far more than that by Tammany standards. As long experience of Fusion administrations proves, however, the possession of such a record...