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Plans. The outstanding and controversial features of farm-relief plans have been, a) Federal price-bolstering and b) tariff adjustment. Plans currently urged contain these features as follows...
...profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale, "and, in fact, we could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models of all the special tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges without which the U. S. cannot defend itself...
...Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough of them to occupy a single floor. Consequently they were obliged to fill the suites with...
Africana THE AFRICAN A SAGA-Blaise Cendrars-Payson & Clarke ($5). American Negro music, African sculpture have been elevated in the not distant past to positions of considerable dignity. The music, once regarded as inconsequential if not less, is now found to contain certain definitely worthwhile qualities; the sculpture is not simply a collection of hideous absurdities but rather a notable form of art. What, then, of Negro literature and folklore? Translator Margery Bianco gives to us in The African Saga, from L'Anthologie Negre of Blaise Cendrars, roving student and compiler, a comprehensive reply to this question. Legends, stories...
...first Mezzanine floor will contain 36 professor's offices, six Seminar rooms, and several more stack rooms. On this floor in the new West Wing addition will be located the Librarian's Administration offices...