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While reading your June 12 issue of the TIME I was amazed to find, under your "Toilet Kit Tempest" article, a reference to the Civilian Conservation Corps members as "forestry workers on the dole."
It is to he hoped that TIME'S "vocabulary-builders'' will be able to maintain their flair for vivid and witty epithets even during the summer's heat and humidity. Their characterization of members of the Civilization Conservation Corps, recruited from the unemployed, as "workers-in...
One day three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week...
The special session of the 73rd Congress had hung up an amazing record of achievement in its 14-week sitting. It had sanctioned presidential economies that brought the ordinary budget close to balance. It had taken the U. S. off gold, provided for currency inflation. It had enacted a farm...
¶ Passed (57-to-24) the National Recovery bill; sent it to conference. ¶ Adopted a conference report on the $2,000,000,000 home mortgage relief bill; sent it to the President. Only on homes valued at $20,000 or less will the Government help to refinance mortgages. ¶...