Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were far broader and deeper than three years ago. Lesser of them was Economy. There Congress was at odds not only with the President but divided within itself. Last week a House Appropriations subcommittee lopped $500,000,000 off the President's recommended $1,500,000,000 for Relief. This looked like a sign of real revolt. But the House knew that all President Roosevelt really cared about was to keep the CCC going. And the full House Appropriations Committee, reportedly after telephone calls from the South, swiftly cancelled its subcommittee's action by restoring the half-billion...
...full $1,500,000,000 for Relief...
...Buchanan, Hermann, Webster and Duboce Streets, the box-shaped mint squats on the scalped dome of live rock which made that block a real-estate liability until the Government took it. From the sidewalk visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults...
When Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and John Llewellyn Lewis of C. I. O. sealed their historic bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...
Pennsylvania's part in the liquor war between the States has been different. One of 17 States which has a monopoly on the sale of liquor, the Commonwealth's Legislature a year ago levied a 4% relief tax on distillers without allowing them to pass the boost on to consumers at 550 State stores. Valuing the big Pennsylvania market, distillers fell in line. All was well until last November when representatives of the other monopoly States met in Chicago, demanded that either Pennsylvania raise prices 4% or that distillers cut prices to other monopoly States 4%. Pennsylvania refused...