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...sunny south, the Washington ball-toters emerge from the huddle with four different players, each calling separate signals. Ickes insists on an aerial thrust, "Bigger and Better Government Spending," and Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need now is the fighting slogan, "Out of the Depression by Christmas...
...government yesterday withdrew another PWA allotment of $240,000 which was to have been used in constructing a new and modern French market. Government officials said they wished to study the new laws more fully...
This was the second allotment withdrawn in two days, and caused quite a bit of consternation in the city. Friday the government held up a loan of $2,500,000 in PWA funds...
...controlling two distinct organizations. One is The Pullman Co., which has a practical monopoly on railroad comfort.* The other is Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., which is one of the biggest U. S. makers of railroad rolling stock. Lately Pullman's equipment business has fattened on railroad orders financed with PWA loans. It built Union Pacific's two streamlined, high-speed trains, has orders booked for two more. From Pullman, Illinois Central also wants an experimental five-car train...
Simultaneously the TVA-Bond & Share agreement expired. Mr. Lilienthal declared the sale dead, bitterly pointing out that "failure of the transaction was not due to any difference between the parties as to price or fairness to investors." Promptly the Knoxville city fathers dusted off their PWA-financed plans for a municipal system...