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...survey will involve appraisals of every house as to present value and cost of needed repairs. HOLC figures that financing such repairs would make its mortgages more secure, give mortgage companies more scope for investment, reward the city with sounder tax values, besides assisting the building industry, raising the local standard of living. Boasts HOLC's Maryland Director Herbert L. Grymes of his reconditioning division: "For every dollar we have spent in improvements, the properties have gained $2.44. . . ." Last week the U. S. Government also did the following for and to U. S. Business...
...become the job of an entirely new official: an Auditor General, to be appointed by a new Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts. Object of this change is to make spending and auditing functions independent of each other (as they are in most well-run private businesses), insure prompter, sounder Government accounting...
...frank examination of the social system showed that it, too, was in collapse; but in this case there was not such unanimity. The vast majority of our people, but by no means all, wanted to build it up on sounder foundations and on sounder new lines...
...artificial in the extreme, the two countries will have a tough currency transfer problem on their hands, probably to be solved by the barter methods of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. In the end, an economic unit the size of small Austria and big Germany combined ought to be a much sounder proposition than a unit only the size of Austria...
...President's dissociation of wages and prices was sound strategy as an appeal-sounder, if less realistic, than the way John L. Lewis linked them inseparably at his United Mine Workers' convention (see p. 11). But when reporters started to ask the President if he meant to do something about prices, he said with a wave of his long cigaret holder that the conversation was getting too "iffy...