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...summer of 1934 when jobless men from factory and skyscraper turned to pick out PWA highways or to hoe subsistence gardens, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service searched for a relationship between a man's occupation and his health. Death proved to be the best indicator of such relationship, providing the following rates, which Dr. Gumming published last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Direful Pick, Salutary Hoe | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Federal, State and local governments (must) act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced." (This explains the FERA, the PWA, the CWA, and other economies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt: Promises vs. Acts | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...President, Franklin Roosevelt tossed philosophy overboard, faced facts. His choice lay between direct Federal relief and mass starvation accompanied by almost inevitable rebellion. Promptly- through CWA, PWA, CCC, FERA-he began pouring public millions into private pockets. As the Government rushed in to support and finally almost supplant private charity, solvent citizens took notice. Since they were paying the Federal relief bill through taxation, they began to doubt the practical necessity of any longer subscribing to private charities. In 1932, 120 cities contributed $57,800,000 to private charities. Last year the same cities contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Philosophy & Practice | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...recesses so arranged that spectators will see only one picture at a time. Estimated cost of the building: $160,000. Since most of the building materials will be concrete and Connecticut stone, the State expects that 90% of the cost will go to labor, hopes therefore to wangle a PWA loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird Museum | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...town. It sounded particularly pleasant to utility men last week, worried night & day as they are about where the rash of public ownership will next break out on the body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Concordia Case | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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