Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stopgap...
...contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using all three services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only 50-odd U. S. newspaper clients, compared with U. P.'s 1,100, and A. P.'s 1,360) is at best a stopgap, may explain why in the midst of a great war the News concentrates on local affairs. But it will give Clark Beach some kind of national and foreign coverage in case he cannot get what he wants from...
...Overhaul the present stopgap old-age assistance program, which was supposed to take care of uninsured oldsters by giving them pensions up to $30 a month, financed by matching State and Federal grants. In practice the 1,783,171 pensioners under this program are getting an average of $19, and in the South pensions have ranged down to $6. The Roosevelt-Altmeyer proposal: abandon the policy of matching grants, subsidize States according to their economic need...
...impression of the volume of job seekers, and no representative letter can be chosen from such heterogeneous applications-from men and women; from youngsters, young marrieds, middle aged, and oldsters; from chemists, farmers, accountants, writers, executives, secretaries; from people who have had no jobs for years and people with stopgap jobs that are not jobs at all. Since the applications as a group are more impressive than any single one, TIME will wind up its experiment in a forthcoming issue by publishing three columns of job-wanted letters chosen primarily for their interest to readers...
...purpose. Relief funds began to run out in Cleveland last month. Last week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised a $50,000 stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While breadless breadlines lengthened and the city council met to think up some sort of new emergency solution to tide the city over through the month or so until funds appear. Mayor Harold Hitz Burton made what was apparently meant...