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...form of Sovietism." By the middle of July 1933, however, more than 300,000 youths between 18 and 25 were at work under Army discipline in 1,300 CCC camps. Among other things, they helped plant more than 200 million trees to reforest 17 million acres in a "shelterbelt" that spanned the Middle West...
Oceanographer Parr's own ideas on climate control are still in a sketchy stage, but he offered meteorologists a few provocative suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...
...Appropriations Committee presented to the House a third deficiency bill which: 1) knocked out the $20,000,000 Farm Tenancy program: 2) cut the Labor Relations Board's request for $1,800,000 in half; 3) denied the Agriculture Department $500,000 for the Great Plains shelterbelt tree plantings; 4) disapproved an additional $10,000.000 which Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy was seeking for his Maritime Commission. Total intended economies: about 30% of Budget Bureau estimates...
...Senate, Secretary Wallace made a long defense of the shelterbelt program, and the Senate finally put back the $1,000,000 appropriation. Last week the fate of the great 1,200-mile dream belt was settled, as are most legislative matters, in conference. Nurserymen have on hand 60,000,000 seedling trees which the Government has paid them $4 or $5 a thousand to raise. For $2.25 per 1,000, the trees can be raised for another year or two until of suitable age for planting out. For about 50? per 1,000 they can be packed and shipped...
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