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...Army Corps of Engineers . . . might not have done the job either, but at least it had an engineer's chance to do it and Mr. Ickes didn't have a Chinaman's. Either as an aid to recovery, a construction program or a vehicle for employment, PWA is a failure-honest but complete...
...nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...
...failure to ensure export trade by keeping farm prices in competition with foreign countries leaves the agricultural problems worse for 1936. Mr. Johnson maintains. He also points out that the failure to promote increased business activity has been aided by the PWA-WPA projects and the destruction of business confidence...
...workers were now needed to do the work that one had done before. Result: many a project is stalled, many an unskilled worker is left idle by a shortage of skilled labor. From the U.S.S. Houston last fortnight, Presidential Guest Hopkins abolished the rule requiring 90% of workers on PWA projects to be drawn from relief rolls. In New York City, needing 12,000 skilled workers, WPA officials planned to call in non-relief workmen if the shortage was not quickly supplied by volunteers from home relief...
...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...