First Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1937: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session ... |
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... months the number engaged on Works Program projects dropped gradually to 3,300,000 persons at the beginning of July 1936 . At this time the emergency situation caused by the prolonged drought in many middle western and southwestern ...
... months the number engaged on Works Program projects dropped gradually to 3,300,000 persons at the beginning of July 1936 . At this time the emergency situation caused by the prolonged drought in many middle western and southwestern ...
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... months of the program , the Works Progress Administration has accounted for from 70 to 80 percent of each month's Works Program employment . A peak employment figure for W. P. A. amounting to slightly over 3,000,000 was reached early in ...
... months of the program , the Works Progress Administration has accounted for from 70 to 80 percent of each month's Works Program employment . A peak employment figure for W. P. A. amounting to slightly over 3,000,000 was reached early in ...
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... months of 1935 , the relative importance of the W. P. A. program and of the programs of other agencies has changed considerably during the period of Works Pro- gram operation . The number of persons engaged in Emergency Conservation ...
... months of 1935 , the relative importance of the W. P. A. program and of the programs of other agencies has changed considerably during the period of Works Pro- gram operation . The number of persons engaged in Emergency Conservation ...
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... months . Of the 400,000 in the last few months , 250,000 were transferred to the Resettlement Administration , and most of them are still getting benefits , but now through rehabilitation grants and loans . In round figures , 95 percent ...
... months . Of the 400,000 in the last few months , 250,000 were transferred to the Resettlement Administration , and most of them are still getting benefits , but now through rehabilitation grants and loans . In round figures , 95 percent ...
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... month . This total necessarily differs from the total report for the week ending Nov. 28 , 1936 . TABLE 14. - Hours and earnings of persons employed on Works Progress Adminis- tration projects , half - months ending July 31 , 1935 ...
... month . This total necessarily differs from the total report for the week ending Nov. 28 , 1936 . TABLE 14. - Hours and earnings of persons employed on Works Progress Adminis- tration projects , half - months ending July 31 , 1935 ...
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additional Adminis administrative expenses agencies Agriculture allocated amount approximately attorneys average BALDWIN BELL break-down building Bureau camps cents CHAIRMAN Civilian Conservation Corps Commission committee commodities Congress Conservation construction cost County Dakota December December 31 Department District of Columbia Division drought earnings Emergency Relief Administration employees employment enrollees equipment estimate expenditures families farms FECHNER FERTICH figures fiscal funds Grain Futures Act grants homesteads HOPKINS included increase industry Interstate Commerce Commission investigation January JANUARY 15 June 30 labor LUDLOW MEHL ment months National Youth Administration North Carolina North Dakota number of persons operation percent persons employed Progress Administration Progress Administration projects received record reduction relief rolls reports Resettlement Administration rural salaries Secretary WALLACE Self-help Cooperative Senator POPE statement stenographers TABER TABLE telephone tion total number Treasury TYNER types of projects unemployed United W. P. A. workers WALKER Washington WOODRUM
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