Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have so far failed to create a national policy for the development of our land and water resources and for their better use by those people who cannot make a living in their present positions. Only thus can we permanently elimjnate many millions of people from the relief rolls. [In] some sections of the North-west and Southwest . . . many million acres of land must be restored to grass or trees if we are to prevent a new and man-made Sahara. 3) "I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several...
...fell upon the drought-parched North Central States. A 3-in. precipitation was estimated by college agronomists to be worth $50,000,000 to desperate farmers. General Midwestern rains prevented utter agricultural disaster but came weeks too late to do any lasting good. On his red-splotched drought map. Relief Administrator Hopkins blocked in 46 more stricken counties in Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Texas. ''The drought area," said he, "no doubt will spread, even though there is more rain...
...monthly crop report of the Department of Agriculture was released three days early to give relief officials a clearer picture of the catastrophe. On the basis of June 1 estimates the U. S. would have its shortest wheat crop since 1893, not more than 500,000,000 bu. of winter and spring wheat. The winter wheat estimate was 61,000,000 bu. below the previous month's report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade...
Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
Because the newspaperwomen who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt were excluded from the conference, it remained for Financier Bernard Mamies Baruch, who usually has small patience for easy-going relief handouts, to report what took place. Mr. Baruch:: "You should have seen those people's faces. It was really the most remarkable thing I ever saw. . . . You felt their sense of responsibility. There was a lovely thing at the end. The president of the Homesteaders' association said, "I think we ought to offer up a prayer for the blessings that the great Jehovah'- he used the word Jehovah...