Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every morning while their drivers vainly sought pickers in the city. "Farmers are begging for pickers and they are offering them from $1 to $1.25 per 100 pounds picked," exclaimed Agricultural Committee Chairman Robert Snowden of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce appealing to the WPA to send men on relief to the fields...
...custom born of experience that wherever two or three are gathered together, it is desirable to provide antechambers devoted to retiring, resting, washing, or seeking comfort. So in the Yard the inaccessibility of the dormitory facilities has necessitated the combination of flood control and relief work in the provision of two small rooms under the speakers stand, suitable both for members of the Harvard macroscope and for the general public...
Balance. By the President's figuring, the Government's deficit for 1937 would be $2,096,996,300, against $4,763,841,642 for 1936. And all this deficit, said he, would not be added to the public debt. Because of overborrowing for the Bonus and relief, the Treasury had started fiscal 1937 with an enormous working balance of $2,225,112,350. It was planned to spend enough of this during the year to bring the balance down to about $1,100,000,000. And the Treasury would borrow only $750,000,000 of new money. Therefore...
Waste (Bobbs-Merrill, 50?) by the same author is an engineer's popularization of the problems of soil erosion, drought, deforestation, soil fertility, etc. Towards the end Waste marches on into a New Deal view of unemployment and relief. Potentiality: 25,000 votes for Roosevelt...
...five years." Of 16 men even their families knew nothing. Author Tunis concludes that most of the 88 who failed to respond to letters, telegrams and telephone calls are probably "failures," that, taken together with the failures who did answer, about one-eighth of his classmates are either on relief or are living on handouts from relatives...