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First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

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First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

A boy is writing at a table in a classroom, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A boy is writing at a table in a classroom, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Regal Knitting Co., 1333 Broadway, New York City. Shipping department

Regal Knitting Co., 1333 Broadway, New York City. Shipping department

Charges Indian Bureau officials sympathetic to communist front organization. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Alice Lee Jamison, representative of the American Indian Federation, today charged before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that nine high officials of the Indian Bureau in the Interior Department are members of or sympathetic to an alleged communist front organization, She referred to the Civil Liberties Union which previous witnesses before the committee charged was a communist front group. Two of the nine officials have since left the government service, Mrs. Jamison said, and another has been transferred to the Department of Agriculture

Charges Indian Bureau officials sympathetic to communist front organization. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Alice Lee Jamison, representative of the American Indian Federation, today charged before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that nine high officials of the Indian Bureau in the Interior Department are members of or sympathetic to an alleged communist front organization, She referred to the Civil Liberties Union which previous witnesses before the committee charged was a communist front group. Two of the nine officials have since left the government service, Mrs. Jamison said, and another has been transferred to the Department of Agriculture

Charges Indian Bureau officials sympathetic to communist front organization. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Alice Lee Jamison, representative of the American Indian Federation, today charged before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that nine high officials of the Indian Bureau in the Interior Department are members of or sympathetic to an alleged communist front organization, She referred to the Civil Liberties Union which previous witnesses before the committee charged was a communist front group. Two of the nine officials have since left the government service, Mrs. Jamison said, and another has been transferred to the Department of Agriculture

Charges Indian Bureau officials sympathetic to communist front organization. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Alice Lee Jamison, representative of the American Indian Federation, today charged before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that nine high officials of the Indian Bureau in the Interior Department are members of or sympathetic to an alleged communist front organization, She referred to the Civil Liberties Union which previous witnesses before the committee charged was a communist front group. Two of the nine officials have since left the government service, Mrs. Jamison said, and another has been transferred to the Department of Agriculture

There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applications in the Social Security Board Records Office. To facilitate keeping a constant check on each, applications are grouped in blocks of 1,000, numbered in sequence, before they are started through the various operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for every worker. The photograph above shows workers in the Records Office assembling applications in to blocks of 1,000.

There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applications in the Social Security Board Records Office. To facilitate keeping a constant check on each, applications are grouped in blocks of 1,000, numbered in sequence, before they are started through the various operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for every worker. The photograph above shows workers in the Records Office assembling applications in to blocks of 1,000.

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

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