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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when President Roosevelt signed away $250,000,000 more for relief, WPA had become just about the grimmest thing in the country. The new appropriation will be spent before June 30, bringing the relief expenditures for the fiscal year of 1938 to $1,750,000,000. Most of the additional funds will pay the wages of 500,000 more relief workers. This spring, the total on the WPAyroll will be 2,500,000-the highest in two years with the exception of a single week during the 1936 drought...
...deficiency appropriation acts, a total of $8,671,078,685 has been granted by Congress for relief. More than half of this amount has been allocated to WPA, making it the New Deal's greatest spending agency. Wages and salaries accounted for 85% of the money spent. Administrative costs were well under the 5% maximum allowed...
...when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew out and wrecked...
...decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first $100,000,000, later $300,000,000 a year, for education...
Brother Stacy Woodard, recently head photographer for Pare Lorentz' The River (TIME, Nov. 8), became interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...