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...December, PWA announced the allotment of $500,000 to the Department of Commerce for assistance to the industry in the development and mass production of a low-priced, safer airplane?since private capital admittedly could not do it alone. To date this fund has not been received by the Department and in light of succeeding developments, is no longer required although it would be heartily welcomed if it turned...
...difficulty of defeating Governor Brann lay in his big personal popularity. Knowing Maine's inborn conservatism, he did not pose as an ardent supporter of the New Deal. But he made use of New Deal support. Army engineers had rejected a proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000 to harness the huge tides of Passamaquoddy Bay. President Roosevelt, however, wrote Mr. Brann expressing his interest in the project. During the campaign Secretary Ickes went to make a personal inspection?to see whether the Army engineers might not have been wrong. Thus Democrats dangled hope of a New Deal plum...
...this time Artist Jere Miah II refused to let his name be known, but emitted a series of pronouncements through President Birch-Field of the gallery. Most important was the fact that he had never been on the PWA rolls. The initials after his name, he said, meant "Poor White Artist." The only hint of his identity was a report that the artist was comparatively unknown, 35, tall, blond, separated from his wife and disgusted with the New Deal...
...pedagogs have taken hope. In 37 States school building has leaped 700%-$34,000,000 in the first quarter of this year as against less than $5,000,000 in the same period in 1933. And from Washington last week went word that 1934-35 school expenditures under PWA will total $160,603,032 of which $126,755,474 will be in the form of Federal loans and grants...
Robert R. Doane, onetime expert employed by the National Industrial Conference Board, was hired five months ago as Director of Research for a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity undertaken with PWA funds. Its purpose was to find out how much of every kind of goods the U. S. can produce. Last week Researcher Doane wrote an article in the New Outlook interpreting some of the facts he found...