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...week per girl. Now, at a time when many others are just deciding on projects-board meetings, committee meetings and architects meetings are over for the San Antonio Federation. Their application, plans, drawings, specifications, reports, etc., are already in the hands of the Government's NRA Board where the Federation hopes to receive favorable attention. All this because we had the information at the earliest date possible in a form which was understandable. Too much gratitude cannot go to TIME...
...between a lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which beats...
...Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...love has General Johnson for Henry Ford, the only major industrialist who has as yet refused publicly to kiss the rod of NRA. General Johnson's attempt to get even by having Secretary Wallace refuse the low bid of a Ford dealer on 1,600 trucks for the Civilian Conservation Corps was frustrated by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, Nov. 6, 13). Last week General Johnson again tried by catch-as-catch-can tactics to throw Mr. Ford. Once again General Johnson was set back on his heels...
...economic reorganization that may be attempted. That's why the ingenious idea of removing the troublesome codes on agricultural by-products from the hands of both Mr. Peek and Mr. Tugwell is an indication of how important the President himself regards the smooth administration of the codes. The NRA itself is also adopting a somewhat more practical tone in its dealings with business. Much of this is due unquestionably to the rising tide of Congressional criticism, which means controversy in January. The Roosevelt administration is skillfully anticipating its opposition and mending its way accordingly