Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales ran from two and one-half to three times the normal weekly turnover. Best sellers were the highest-priced models. Ford dealers sold an estimated 57,000 units, General Motors 65,000, Chrysler 30,000. Last week WPA announced that for the first time in four months Detroit relief rolls fell. Said Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis, who conceived the used car drive: "From 30% to 60% of the transactions made by our dealers were for cash. This is a healthy situation. . . . In other words, there was no straining of credit to get these satisfactory results...
Urging a restriction of "this false use of soil conservation propaganda to cover a dubious policy of scarcity economics," Carle C. Zimmerman, professor of Sociology, delivered a denunciation of the Administration's program for farm relief on the Harvard Guardian program over Station WAAB last night at 8:15 o'clock...
Ironically entitling his address, "Farm Relief or Revolution," Professor Zimmerman charged that "the total of this group of expenditures may seriously endanger the national credit and the economic position of the American middle class families...
With a varied career behind him which includes a Harvard Ph.D. Degree, chain manufacturing, the brokerage business, relief administration in New York State and then in Washington, Stone was persuaded by Harry Hopkins to take the position of relief administrator for Florida...
...West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...