Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "Strategy" under National Defense, July 22, p. 19 . . . has me so upset and fearful for the fate of our nation and people that the only ultimatum I can foresee is destruction of all that took so many years to build up. We all want cold, clean facts-but must they all be so disheartening? Cannot you probe-dig in-and "dish us out" a few encouraging remarks...
...sight, but probably up to no good, were Clayton's tattered small fry, some of them without enough clothes to go to school. Raymond Huff squared his shoulders and went to WPA and NYA with a scheme. He got WPA to agree to help him build school buildings, NYA to finance student projects...
Last fall Superintendent Huff dedicated his new school, complete with WPA oil paintings. New Mexico's Governor John E. Miles exclaimed: "I sometimes think this man Raymond Huff uses elastic dollars, he makes them go so far." This summer Superintendent Huff began to build a stadium, which, when it is finished next month, will have a football field, cinder track, lighted tennis courts, roller and ice skating rinks, barbecue pits. He also started construction of a new cafeteria, put his students to work last fortnight making dishes for it from Clayton clay...
...arts spread far & wide. By last week, tourists had swamped Superintendent Huff and his students with orders for hand-carved furniture, pottery, rugs. Beaming happily on the industrious town, Raymond Huff said: "I'm thinking about the day when boys and girls from our school can marry and build their own homes just as we have built this school...
...aluminum sheet, rods, tubing and extruded shapes, Reynolds Metals imported about half of its virgin aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity the way a St. Louis bleacher crowd uses pop on a hot day. Like Alcoa's own main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed a $68,500,000 TVA expansion bill last week, Reynolds will get its electricity from...