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...world's biggest maker of paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance to welcome a new industry with banner headlines...
With four billion Work Relief dollars in their pockets, Frank Walker, Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins went to the White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab...
Army engineers, a special PWA board, other surveyors have unanimously thumbed down the idea of spending $48,000,000 to harness the 20-ft. tides of the Bay of Fundy at Passamaquoddy, Me. They declared that Maine's remote northern tip offered no market for the vast amounts of power which would result, that necessary power could be produced more cheaply from coal. But. when Maine was preparing to whirl its political weather vane last summer, President Roosevelt expressed renewed interest in Passama quoddy, Secretary Ickes visited the site. Maine swung to the Democrats and last week...
Although it is the oldest State university, Georgia is not rich and new buildings are perpetually needed. One of Dr. Caldwell's prime trials will be Governor Eugene Talmadge who feuds with the Roosevelt Administration and refuses to let the University borrow $2,800,000 from PWA for new buildings. Last week genial Dr. Sanford and earnest Dr. Caldwell thought that perhaps together they could bring the Governor around...
...understand the reference to the women in the "lower brackets." I must belong to that class, but I've been trying to get out of that class. Does it mean that I can get help from the PWA so that I can have several women to help me? If I had that much help, I could take care of my home better and go to "higher brackets...