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...money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than...
...School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...
...passed and in 1930 Florida Congressmen got a bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan, then to PWA, finally to WPA, all without success until the September hurricane blew the Dixie into big black headlines throughout...
...does it happen that it isn't a PWA project...
Chief Darling's 20-month record is, however, far from one of complete frustration. By an unnoticed rider to an innocuous joint resolution he got $6,000,000 out of Congress, From WPA, PWA, the Forestry Service and other agencies he chivvied another $8,500,000 to spend primarily for their purposes, but indirectly with benefits to his wild game. He has actually turned some 900,000 acres of submarginal land over to his beloved ducks and other animals...