Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rescue attempts began almost immediately, as West Virginia Governor Arch Moore Jr. sent in the National Guard and signed a bill providing $1,000,000 in emergency relief. From Shanghai President Nixon telephoned Moore and declared Logan County a national disaster area. Both the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army moved into the area and from emergency headquarters in the town of Man, which survived the flood relatively intact, began the awesome task of feeding and clothing the stunned survivors. Guardsmen driving heavy machinery prodded through the debris and rubble for bodies. To get the hollow back...
...policy, and his opposition to forced busing used "solely to achieve a racial balance"--spent yesterday morning touring Miami condominiums and visiting shopping centers before leaving for Fort Lauderdale where he was to meet with local labor leaders and attend a St. Patrick's dinner dance for the Irish relief fund...
Thursday, he too had made in Miami what was billed as a major statement, a proposed national "fair share" tax program, including a graduated social security tax, property tax relief, and repeal of tax breaks for big business Muskie ended Friday's campaigning with a walk through the Palm Beach shopping mall. As it had in New Hampshire Muskie's earlier absence from the primary battle seems to have hurt...
Britain began lighting up again last week. The country's striking coal miners (TIME, Feb. 28) overwhelmingly accepted the government's offer of a 21% pay hike and started returning to the pits. Despite the widespread public relief that the power crisis was over, darker days ahead for Prime Minister Edward Heath are predicted by Correspondent Honor Balfour, who has covered the British scene, including Parliament, for TIME since 1944. Her assessment...
...generally paid better than relief, but not as well as private industry. Unskilled laborers earned as little as $19 a month; professional and technical workers not much more than $94 a month. Fortunately, some WPA families were also eligible for relief payments. By law, nine out of ten WPA recruits had to pass a means test, and Congress did not want them to have too much money left for luxuries...