Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal had already spent $736,000,000 to put 350,000 idle city-bound youngsters in CCC camps, $14,000,000 to help students stay in college. Much of NYA's work was to be along the same lines. About 150,000 youths, drawn exclusively from families on Relief, would be given work relief jobs at $15 per month, set to building Youth Centres, taking a Youth Census. About 100,000 high-school youths would get $6 per month for carfare, lunch, incidentals. About 120,000 college undergraduates would get $15 per month and a selected few thousand would...
...sponsors were reported last week to be hoping that all of NYA's functions except work relief would be permanent. Fifty million dollars?roughly, enough to endow two Duke Universities; or to pay the ordinary expenses of the U. S. Government in 1850 with enough left over to acquire Alaska & Hawaii; or to build another Normandie; or to finance the World War for five hours?were set aside for NYA's first year. Said President Roosevelt: "The yield on this investment should be high...
Meanwhile, the mobsters in Canada's relief camps, who have proved to be among the ugliest customers ever supported at their fellow citizens' expense, pressed on with their plans to "march" on Ottawa in motor trucks. Premier Bennett issued appeals to all Canadians of goodwill to oppose this mass trek to demand still more of Canada's taxpayers...
...higher than French wages. Their argument was simply that, having raised an umbrella over a domestic lace industry 26 years ago with special tariff treatment, the Government should continue to protect it. If the Government closed its umbrella, capital would be lost and thousands of workers thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what few skilled lace-makers there are in the U. S. And wearing gay lace boutonnieres, 500 of them appeared in Washington to join their employers in protest. Spokesman for lace employees, however...
...content with all these sacrifices . . . France will . . . call upon our workers to again rally to her economic relief by giving up their own jobs and going on relief payrolls that the lace-makers of Calais and Caudry may be happily employed...