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...given him by the new law, Mr. Hopkins said he intended to use $450,000,000 to taper off CWA gradually and $500,000,000 for direct relief. Congress would like him to use more for CWA but he came out strongly against it, declaring that CWA was an emergency measure, should not be permanent, should be gradually demobilized...
Fortnight ago when funds began to run low and CWA began to taper off its work, a veritable storm of protest arose. Thousands of letters a day arrived at Mr. Hopkin's office protesting the ending...
...make this price reduction La Salle Motorman Fisher discarded the traditional Cadillac V-type motor for a straight eight, which permitted him to narrow the radiator and taper the whole body in long, fast lines. Heavily streamlined and equipped with "knee-action" wheels, La Salle, as a newcomer in the medium-priced field, was one of the trumps of the Show...
Hupmobile approached the egg-shape of pure aerodynamics more closely than any other make at the show except Chrysler and De Soto. But its broad front and smooth taper to the rear was achieved without scrapping all points of traditional design...
When English statesmen retire they often retire into their studies to taper off an active career by writing their memoirs or refurbishing their rusty classics. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, perennial bad boy of English politics, who. though not yet retired, has already written numerous memoirs, now emerges from his study brandishing the first two volumes of a life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master...