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...regular four year college training in the Social Sciences or in Public Administration. And, even more important, examinations for entrance into the service are now more closely correlated to the educational system. Such steps as these make it evident that the government now recognizes the need for a greater reservoir of expert opinion...
...minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept at the Army's nine Corps Area headquarters; a reservoir of air corps mechanics...
...gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start pouring into Cajalco Reservoir, thence to Los Angeles and twelve other thirsty California towns...
...through the anti-lynching bill. This will be followed by legislation, now being carefully thought out, to put an end to the disfranchisement of the Negroes in the South. . . . That is the dream. . . . If they win, they are going after those five million voting fish in that untouched Southern reservoir with a legislative net guaranteed to catch them...
...years later, the possibility of Cuba's harboring a great oil reservoir is again under investigation. Geologists are examining cores from thousands of feet below the surface; radio seismograph crews are sounding in Cuba's hills. Designed to bolster the island's limited revenues, the new petroleum law passed by the legislature all but forces activity on concessions by requiring each concessionaire to drill within five years at least one well to 4,000 feet unless oil is struck at lesser depth; the alternative to such exploitation is Government confiscation...