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Senate Banking and Currency Committee hears Secretary Wallace. Washington, D.C., June 7. Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that he approved the bill to revamp the Farm Credit System because farmers need relief from 'excessive interest charges and debts which they cannot pay. In addition,' he said, '60 percent of all the National Farm Loan Associations have had their capitol so impaired that they cannot make new loans. Beyond question there is room for improvement in both the general farm credit situation and the Federal Land Bank System'

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60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes

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Government insured loans a 'desirable first step' says Jerome Frank of S.E.C. Washington, D.C., June 2. SEC Chairman Jerome Frank making his initial appearance before a Senate Committee since his advancement to the Chairmanship, today appeared as witness before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to endorse government insured loans as a 'desirable first step toward enabling local banking institutions to fill a gap in the financing of small business.' The bill was proposed by Sen. James E. Mead, and proposes that the RFC insure up to 90 percent of the loans made by private banking institutions

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Resigns as Director of Federal Prisons. Washington D.C. Sanford Bates, who has resigned as Director of Federal Prisons, effective February 1, was received by President Roosevelt at the White House today. Bates is leaving the federal government, to become Executive Director of the Boy's Club of America, Inc. for a salary 50 percent in excess of present $10,000 a year

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Bankers' Association opposes federal insured loans as hazard to established businesses. Washington, D.C., June 15. Robert M. Hanes, 1st Vice President of the American Bankers' Association, and brother of Treasury Undersecretary John W. Hanes, today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the Association opposed the proposed bill to authorize the RFC to insure up to 90 percent on loans to small businesses. He said that it would be a hazard to already established enterprises. He denied that bankers are 'sitting idly by waiting for the borrowers to seek credit'

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Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. Present railroad wages are on approximately the same level as in 1920 when the roads were controlled by the government, Bert M. Jewell, President of the A.F. of L.'s railway employees, told President Roosevelt's fact finding board today. He contended that because railroad workers have made "little or no progress" in improving their wages rates since then, they should now be called upon to accept the 15 percent reduction demanded by the carriers, 10/8/38

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Emprunt Français 5 percent 1920 - Lloyds and National Provincial Foreign Bank Limited

Uncle Sam and envoys from different nations making their contributions to Marianne for the reconstruction of France. Translation of title: 5 percent French Loan 1920 - Lloyds and National Provincial Foreign Ba More

Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. savings. Washington, D.C., May 23. Dr. Donald Davenport, special economic consultant for the S.E.C., told the Monopoly Committee yesterday, with the aid of large charts, that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have 37.8 billions of dollars laid up in savings, this amount being 67 percent of the total savings of the United States

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Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill here go a few barrels of beer -- not 1/2 of 1 percent -- into the Schuylkill River.

Photograph shows Public Safety Director, Smedley D. "Duckboards" Butler, destroying kegs of beer with an axe.

Naval leaders ask Congress for more armament. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Photographed today at the initial meeting of the House Naval Affairs Committee are, left to right: Lewis Compton, Assistant to Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Secretary Edison, with Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations standing in rear. Following a brief statement by Secretary Edison, Admiral Stark urged the Committee to approve a bill by Chairman of the Committee Carl Vinson to give the Navy 25 percent more tonnage, 6,000 more planes at a cost of $1,300,000,000. Without such increase, he said, the U.S. will be 'relatively weak in naval power at the end of the year'

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Madras (vicinity), India. Children of the workers from the firewood section just above Madras ready to be spleened. The spleen rate is fourteen percent

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Before Senate Wire Tapping Committee. Washington, D.C., May 29. When he appeared before the Senate Wire Tapping Committee today, Frank B. Bielaski, Head of a private New York detective agency, got into an argument with Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, over the existence of '10 percent Clubs' in Indiana, which are allegedly composed of contractors who 'kick back' a certain percentage of their state contracts to party campaign committees. Bielaski produced for the Committee a report of one of his operatives to substantiate his charges that the clubs existed

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Government workers union sponsors school in capital. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. A school for government workers sponsored by the United Federal Workers of America, affiliate of the CIO, was inaugurated only two weeks ago but already the registration has increased 200 percent. A variety of courses are offered for which a tuition fee of $2.00 a course is charged to members in good standing of C.I.O. Unions. Non-members will be $2.50. Naturally, a class in Union Organization will be one of the principal courses. Miss Olivia Israli, instructor at the Federal Workers School, registering new students.

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Big talk on little houses. These high officials of the New Deal's housing family photographed as they concluded a conference with President Roosevelt. From the left: Stewart McDonald, head of the [FHA?]; Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Morris L. Coske, head of Rural Electrification, and Peter Grimm, housing expert working in the Treasury Department. Grimm and his associates from New York are concluding a report on housing conditions east of the Mississippi which is expected to show only from 2 to 4 percent vacancies. His report to the President is expected to have a bearing on the future policy of both Federal Housing, Works Progress Administration, the Rural Electrification program and Rural Resettlement, 10/29/35

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Wash. D.C. Working on housing survey figures. Miss Fritzi Honick, left, and Helen Hasting, Secretary to Peter Grimm, who is making a housing survey, are compiling data which shows a surplus of less than 4 percent in housing "East" of the Mississippi. A plan is being worked out in the Treasury Department to prevent a vertical rise in rents. 10/29/35

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

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Cancer kills in the prime of life 95 percent of cases of cancer are in those over 35.

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More women die of cancer than do men 70 percent of the 35,000 women who die annually of cancer of the breast and uterus could be saved if treated in time.

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Farmers' cooperative creamery at Ruthven, Iowa. This is very successful. It is run on a stock share basis. Milk sells retail at five cents per quart and cream (thirty-five to thirty-eight percent) at thirty-five cents per quart

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Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezer. Men work on shares, the company fifty percent. Prices are set according to day's supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little either way, they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price or much fish for little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

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Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating

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Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California

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Rammed earth construction near Birmingham, Alabama. Under tamping the earth is compressed approximately fifty percent

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Soil erosion in the cornfield on William Keefe's farm in Benton County, Indiana. Note subsoil, and gradation to fertile topsoil from left to right. This county has the best soil in the state. This field has been in hay or pasture six out of the last sixteen years; the slope at this point in the field is three to five percent. The owner, who did not know how to stop this erosion, had followed the plan of filling in gullies by plowing until two years ago; thus this picture shows gullying on the field in two years' time. Rotating crops: corn, wheat, clover, would have stopped this erosion

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Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at the freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezers. Men work on shares, the company gets fifty percent. Prices are set according to days supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little money either way--they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price, or much fish for very little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

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"Rail Wages have increased 37 percent since 1929"-- facts finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. Dr. Wilfort I. King, Professor of economics at New York University, told the President's fact finding commission today that the average wages of railroad employees, measured in terms of buying power, increased 37 percent since 1929. He added, hourly earnings of railroad men have increased 15 percent while cost of living has fallen 16 percent in the same time, 10/4/38

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[60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes]

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Companies report 11 percent decline in employment. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Colby M. Chester, Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, today told the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that 40 typical companies have reported a decline of 11 percent in employment. He also told the committee that three quarters of the companies' work-week has be lessened by 16 percent, 12038

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Senate Naval Affairs Committee hears Chief of Naval Aeronautics in secret session. Washington, D.C., April 7. Rear Admiral Arthur D. Cook, Chief Naval Aeronautics, pictured with Senator David I. Walsh, (left) Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, before whom A.D. Cook appeared today in secret session. When questioned on the Naval Expansion Bill, Admiral Cook declared that hardly 50 percent of the planes needed in war time could be manufactured under existing government and private facilities, 4/7/38

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U.S. plane manufacturing facilities inadequate; Admiral Cook. Washington, D.C., April 7. Rear Admiral Arthur D. Cook, Chief Naval Aeronautics, testifying before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee at a secret hearing today declared that existing government and private facilities could manufacture hardly 50 percent of the naval planes needed in war time. He was heard on the proposed new Naval Expansion Bill, 4/7/38

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Companies report 11 percent decline in employment. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Colby M. Chester, Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, today told the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that 40 typical companies have reported a decline of 11 percent in employment. He also told the committee that three quarters of the companies' work-week has be lessened by 16 percent, 1/20/38

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The latest in plows. Washington, D.C., July 14. R.B. Gray, Chief of the Div. of Mechanical Equipment, U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, tightens a nut on a self-aligning jointer. An invention which helps to do a better job of plowing while reducing the power requirement 10 to 15 percent. The metal hood at the side of the plow itself is a trash guide, which helps to turn under trash, weeds, and corn stalks. it is a factor in controlling such pests as the European Corn Borer, 7/14/38

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Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 10/17/38

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Fact finding board vetoes 15 percent rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 29. Reporting to President Roosevelt today, the emergency fact-finding board announced they had rejected the demand of Railway Management for a 15 percent wage cut affecting 960,000 workers. Left to right - Dean James M. Landis, of the Harvard Law School; Chief Justice Walter Stacy, of North Carolina; and Dr. Harry A. Millis of the University of Chicago, 10-29-38

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Signing New York milk marketing order Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace Center; Commissioner Holton V. Noyes, right; of the New York Department of Agriculture, and F.R. Wilcox, director of the AAA division of marketing and marketing agreements, are looking over the Federal Milk Marketing order for the New York metropolitan marketing area. This order, which was approved by more that 70 percent of dairymen supplying the New York City market with milk in a referendum held recently throughout the New York milkshed, establishes uniform minimum prices to be paid dairymen handlers. The marketing agreement program affects about 10 million people who get an average daily supply of about 6 and a half million quarts of milk from the New York milkshed, 8/26/38

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Mexican miner and child, Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Many Mexicans and Negroes were brought into Scotts Run around 1926 to break the strike. Now about one fourth of all mines employ any at all and these, only very small percent and "only the cream." They are generally accepted by other folks and there is a good deal of mixing and intermarrying

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New England hurricane. Apple orchard near North Brookfield, Massachusetts. This orchard has seven thousand trees and eighty-five percent of them went down

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A man standing next to a little girl in a field, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Urges equipment and work loans to railroads. Washington, D.C., May 5. RFC Head Jesse Jones today urged equipment and work loans to railroads as a means of speedy re-employment and maintaining safety. He was testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee in connection with a bill introduced by Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Under the bill, the borrowing railroad would agree to use 75 percent of the loan to re-employ workers furloughed since September 1, 1937, 5/5/38

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Charges railroads with gambling on stock market. Washington, D.C., July 6. Alexander F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, leaving the White House today after a conference with the President. Whitney said that railroads could save 700,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 annually if they would do nothing but sell transportation. He charged the railroads had been "gambling on the stock market" and attempting to give rebates to shippers and added "we expect to make a very strong case against the proposed 15 percent wage cut," 7/6/38

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15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

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Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A.F. Cleveland, Traffic Vice President of the Association of American Railroads, today told President Roosevelt's fact finding commission that unless railroads obtain their proper share of traffic, there will be fewer jobs. Cleveland, supporting the rail carriers' proposal for a 15 percent wage cut; said that the Railroad Industry "is no longer even a semi-monopoly," 10/3/38

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A black and white photo of a person carrying a bag, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Appears before Roosevelt fact finding committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. H.A. Enoch's, Chairman of the Carrier's Joint Conference Committee, today traced the history of collective bargaining of rail unions with the carriers. He asserted that since the 15 percent wage reduction notice was served on the unions, "our employees have refused to face the facts". "We have offered to submit the dispute to an arbitration board, whose decision, by law, is binding," Enoch's said. "The employees refused arbitration. Instead, they took a strike vote." that is why we are here today, 10/7/38

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"Rail Wages have increased 37 percent since 1929"-- facts finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. Dr. Wilfort I. King, Professor of economics at New York University, told the President's fact finding commission today that the average wages of railroad employees, measured in terms of buying power, increased 37 percent since 1929. He added, hourly earnings of railroad men have increased 15 percent while cost of living has fallen 16 percent in the same time, 10438

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Prostitute at window. There are 140 prostitutes in Peoria, average age about twenty-three. Local physicians estimate ninety percent have gonorrhea and seventy-five percent have syphilis. Peoria, Illinois

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Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Arthur Besse, President of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers which has a membership of more than 400 manufacturers of fabricated wool and fabrics, and represents approximately 80 percent of the wool manufacturers of woolen goods in the country do not favor the bill known as "the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939"

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California county (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these Counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern market throughout the year

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California County (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these Counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern markey throughout the year

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Trucks unloading sacks of wheat at elevator. Only a very small percent of grain comes in by truck to city elevators. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Onions drying in sacks in the field. Fifteen percent of onion growers in the country are Japanese. 700-800 cars are shipped out every year. Malheur County, Oregon

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California county (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these Counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern markt throughout the year

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Thick film examination in the laboratory. The blood rates in winter are over fifty-eight percent

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California County (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these Counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern market throughout the year

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Fred Maschman, TP client, was heavily in debt in 1937. At that time, his debt was reduced fifty percent by a Farm Debt Adjustment Committee. Iowa County, Iowa

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California County (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern market throughout the year

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Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in last five years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Clarence C. Carlton, President of the Motor Wheel Corp. of Detroit, today told the Monopoly Committee that the patent system had engendered competitive conditions in the auto industry and lowered the cost of the product. He said, for example, that the cost of wheels had been reduced 20 percent during the last five years, 1/20/39

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Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. savings. Washington, D.C., May 23. Dr. Donald Davenport, special economic consultant for the S.E.C., told the Monopoly Committee yesterday, with the aid of large charts, that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have 37.8 billions of dollars laid up in savings, this amount being 67 percent of the total savings of the United States

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Farmers' supply co-op established in 1936. 800 farmers in this county belong. Sells also radios, washing machines, and refrigerators. Paid thirteen percent dividends from January 1 to July 1, 1939. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Quality in the manufacture of steel requires constant control and research. This chemist is weighing the elements of a steel alloy to determine its exact composition. Analysis is determined to 1/1000 of 1 percent of each element in the alloy

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This is the beginning of the many operations which finally result in rubber tires for the tanks and planes of the armies of the world democracy. This native is tapping a rubber tree and drawing off latex on a rubber plantation in the Netherlands East Indies, which, with British Malaya, supplies more than 90 percent of our raw rubber imports

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Calves of the beef herd of the George Huttons. They got one hundred percent calf crop this year. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eight years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about 25 percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eight years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about 25 percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half- and one-acre lots are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payments on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five per cent annually. Land sells from two hundred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Land sells from two nudred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Quality in the manufacture of steel requires constant control and research. This chemist is weighing the elements of a steel alloy to determine its exact composition. Analysis is determined to 1/1000 of 1 percent of each element in the alloy

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on week ends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eighty years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First Ski tow in United States built on this farm in 1934 by white Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about twenty-five percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property. Woodstock, Vermont

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eight years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about 25 percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Trucks built for the U.S. Army by Dodge are tested on this ramp to make sure that all of them are able to meet the Army specifications of climbing a sixty percent grade. Brakes are also tested at the same time to make sure of their ability to hold the truck on any part of this tremendously steep incline

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AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) office, Grundy County, Iowa. Tagg-Heppenstal electric moisture tester--tells instantly percent of water in grain; used in connection with wheat and storage loans

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eight years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about 25 percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eight years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about 25 percent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

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Ski hut and tow built by Clinton Gilbert, farmer in Woodstock, Vermont. The first ski town in the United States was built on this property and it has increased his income about twenty five percent, and enables him to do many repairs on this property. He has about 150 acres and about twenty-three cows and makes about one hundred gallons maple syrup annually

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

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Steel manufacture. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Land sells from two nudred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogan's new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at a nearby plant which is is working three shifts on defense contracts. Mr. Rogan earns $42.50 a week, and spends about twenty percent of his income for rent

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Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project built by the Federal Works Agency and the Public Buildings Administration, at a cost of $1,282,000 contains 350 units to house married enlisted personnel employed at the Army Air base. Construction is about ninety percent completed and rentals run about twenty percent of tenant's income

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Logs on flat cars at Cascade, Idaho. The state of Idaho now has about 81 billion feet of old growth lumber standing, 8.8 percent is owned by the State; 30.3 percent privately owned and 60.9 percent by the federal government

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Charging one of the 180-ton hearth furnaces at a Midwest plant with pig iron. The charge consists of about fifty-two percent steel scrap and forty-eight percent molten iron

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Samples of milk. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon. Each dairyman's milk is tested twice a month at the cheese plant. Average butter fat content for last year was above 4.4 percent

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The four freedoms. The hot dog is 100 percent American. It is an inevitable symbol of an American enjoying himself. America is one of the very few lands where citizens are still able to "have a good time"

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Logs on flat cars at Cascade, Idaho. The state of Idaho now has about 81 billion feet of old growth lumber standing, 8.8 percent is owned by the State; 30.3 percent privately owned and 60.9 percent by the federal government

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Truckload of milk cans of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. This cooperative handles about fifty percent of the creamery products of the Boise Valley; five other creameries handle the other fifty percent

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately four-year-old guayule plant. The seedlings remain in the nursery for eight or nine months, the age of the shrub being determined by the length of time it is in the field. Guayule reaches maturity in from four to six years. At maturity the plant is about three feet in height. The rubber content is from eighteen to twenty percent of the dry weight

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Combine in the wheat. Whitman County, Washington. About ninety percent of the land in this county is under cultivation. Wheat and livestock are principal crops

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Newport News, Virginia. The "President Jackson" on the eve of its launching. When a ship such as this one is launched, it is about sixty percent completed. After the launching the ship goes to the fitting slips where the interior fittings, deck fittings, engines, etc. are installed

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Lumber manufacture. Mills of the Boise Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. Ninety-five percent of the production is ponderosa pine, the other five percent consists of fir and larch. This plant is building up a stockpile (June 1941) to supply quantities of ammunitions cases. Lumber for army barracks and cantonments is also being supplied

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Combine in the wheat. Whitman County, Washington. About ninety percent of the land in this county is under cultivation. Wheat and livestock are principal crops

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Steel for national defense. Scrap iron to feed the hungry furnaces of the steel mills (at least fifty percent scrap must be used in the open hearth process). In this Baltimore scrap iron dealer's plant, car bodies are compressed hydraulically into small cubes

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Newport News, Virginia. A C-3 passenger and cargo boat. The two tall posts in the middle are called "Samson posts" and are used to support derrick arms, cranes, etc, in loading and unloading the ship. They also serve as ventilators, as can be seen from the holes near their tops. The boat being built on the ways here, is of all steel construction, and is about forty percent completed. "C-3" refers to the type of design

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Combine in the wheat. Whitman County, Washington. About ninety percent of the land in this county is under cultivation. Wheat and livestock are principal crops

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