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Word: reliefers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Administrator Hopkins and Resettler Tugwell acted as their own quarterbacks. By last week's end WPA had placed some 30,000 farmers on relief projects, was adding about 2,000 a day, mostly in the Dakotas, Georgia, Missouri. Resettler Tugwell made a quick tour of the Northwest, chatted with farmers, gloomily announced that half the population of the cattle-grazing Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming would require government aid to get through next winter. Of the cost, he said, he had not the faintest idea. His Resettlement Administration last week received $3,000,000 monthly for development of lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Water & Waste | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Hard on the heels of Governor Landon's notification party in Topeka, WPA men met in Topeka to plan a relief program for Kansas' 27 drought counties. This week the Department of Agriculture upped its drought estimates to include 607 counties in 17 states. In Washington the Crop Reporting Board gloomed that the Great Drought of 1936 was about as severe as the Great Drought of 1934, that pasture land was only 44.7% of normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Water & Waste | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...grew angrier & angrier for 28 consecutive hours debating relief for Britain's jobless until finally the House had to be suspended in its most unruly scene since 1881 when police were called to eject honorable members by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...last September every gate was locked, every worker on the street. As dust gathered on Amoskeag's 20,000 cotton looms, the citizens of Manchester endured a bad winter, a cheerless spring. Amoskeag workers who had been getting $13 a week from the mills were thrown on relief at $2 per week with $1 more for each family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Hampshire Collapse | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile the cost of keeping Manchester's jobless on relief from June 1935 to June 1936 was $1,619,000-about one-third of New Hampshire's total relief expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Hampshire Collapse | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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