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FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Testifying at the Federal Communications Investigation of Purported Monopolistic Practices in the Radio Industry today, John F. Royal, NBC Vice President in charge of programs, said the programs carried by NBC cost 1000,000,000 dollars annually. Royal said this figure included programs picked up from foreign stations

FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Wa...

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Naval increase on the way. Washington, D.C., June 2. Assist. Secretary of the Navy, Charles Edison, today signed final confirmation on awards to private shipyards for the construction of twenty-four naval vessels totaling 159,800 tons. Approximate cost will be $350,000,000. Picture shows, left to right: Warren McLaine, Assist. to Judge Advocate General of the Navy; Rear Admiral W.B. Woodson, Judge Advocate General of the Navy; and Charles Edison, Assist. Secretary of the Navy

Naval increase on the way. Washington, D.C., June 2. Assist. Secretary...

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Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrification Administration, puts his approval on seven rural projects which will place electricity in about 7,000 [...] farm [...] homes at a cost of $1,274,000. These homes, in the most part, have never been lighted by electricity. The projects are in Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Iowa, and Nebr. About 1,125 miles of lines will be constructed. 11/4/35

Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrifi...

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Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D.C. June 8. Senator James P. Pope, Democrat of Idaho, has introduced a bill in the Senate to increase the Federal Government's contribution, through the Social Security Board, to care of dependent children from third the maintenance cost to one half. At present the government contributes half the cost of old age pensions and aid to the blind. The Pope proposal would bring the law with reference to dependent children in conformity to the provisions relating to other beneficiaries of the act. 6/8/37

Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D...

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Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen. Robert Bulkley, D. of Ohio, who introduced a bill authorizing a bond issue of $2,000,000,000 to begin construction of a national system of ten superhighways, the entire cost when completed will cost about $8,000,000,000, the system will be self liquidating through reasonable toll charges and sale of highway frontage, the Senator is shown with ruler mapping the proposed highways, 2/14/38

Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen....

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A black and white photo of a man in the back of a truck, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man in the back of a truck, Vermont. Farm...

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Combination living and bedroom in one of the four-room scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Combination living and bedroom in one of the four-room scattered labor...

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Washington, D.C. Modeling osnaburg pinafore worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was fifty-seven cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling osnaburg pinafore worked out for a high scho...

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Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is a war bond in action! That ashcan hurtling through the air, fired from a Y gun on a PC boat, is a depth charge containing potential death for a lurking submarine. It is in action because somebody bought $105 worth of war bonds. That's what the "ashcan" cost

Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is a war bond in action! Tha...

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Timothy Pickering, March 22, 1792, Mail Rate Cost Estimate

Timothy Pickering, March 22, 1792, Mail Rate Cost Estimate

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Cost of operation II

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

Electrical cooperatives. The wholesale power of the Authority is distributed among rural consumers by cooperatives formed and managed by the farmers. The headquarters buildings of the cooperatives, usually located in small towns or in open country, are for many of the local residents the first contact with modern construction, architecture and interior appointments, as well as with electrical power and modern business methods. The buildings contain reception rooms, which also accommodate the display of appliances; offices; garages; warehouses; and meeting rooms, usually in the second story. They are built within strict cost limitations and perform a much needed service as clubs or minor cultural centers for the rural population. This one is located at Murfreesburo, Tennessee

Electrical cooperatives. The wholesale power of the Authority is distr...

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Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the Senate Rail Inquiry today, A.K. Atkinson, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wabash Railroad, testified that from January 1926 through January 1927, the road secretly purchased 231,319 shares of Lehigh Valley stock at a cost of $23,263,571. These purchases were made, Atkinson said, without authority of the Board of Directors. Chairman Wheeler indicated the transactions a "shocking revelation" and urged immediate legislative action to curtail the "juggling of books," 12/20/37

Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the...

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Putting fly in ointment of "McNutt-for -president" boom. Washington, D.C., April 21. If he continues the pace he is setting to date, Rep. Albert J. Engel, Republican of Michigan, appears certain to throw the "monkey wrench" into the gears of the "McNutt-for-President" boom which got underway during the past winter. Rep. Engel is pictured studying plans he dug up for the two palaces, "Summer" and "Regular" which as high commissioner of the Philippines, McNutt wants built as Commissioner's residences in islands. The proposed palaces are to cost $500,000 and $250,000 respectively. Rep. Engel takes great pride in pointing out that plans for the palaces include 18 lavatories and bathrooms with a seating capacity of 43, 4/21/38

Putting fly in ointment of "McNutt-for -president" boom. Washington, D...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER. THE EDIFICE WHEN COMPLETED WILL HAVE COST $13,000,000. WITH THE PRESIDENT IS CAPT. DANIEL CALLAGHAN, WHITE HOUSE NAVAL AIDE

PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL. PRESIDENT ROOSEV...

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Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiator in his car every evening and refills it again with water in the morning to save the cost of antifreeze

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiato...

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On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's farm to ski. Mr Dickenson built a ski tow on his farm three years ago at a cost of one thousand dollars. This is the first year he had made any money, although business is increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy farm and until the hurricane last year destroyed his entire grove of maple trees he made and sold maple syrup. Lisbon near Franconia, New Hampshire

On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's fa...

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Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bryant in their trailer about two miles out of Bath. Mr. Leslie Bryant works in the shipyard. They have been living in the trailer for two months. They could not rent in Bath and although a trailer cost them almost as much as a house, Mr. Bryant feels that it is a better investment because they do not know where they will go next in search of work when this "boom" is over. Bath, Maine

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bryant in their trailer about two miles out of Bat...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. A plant inspector carefully checks welded gun carriages for Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns. These carriages and Bofor gun mounts are now manufactured in a large Midwest rubber company which has been converted to production of war necessities. Originally, Bofors carriages were riveted and required many additional operations in assembling, but company engineers have produced this welded construction which has reduced time and cost of manufacture and produced a much stronger, one-piece article

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. A plant inspector carefully checks wel...

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Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Cook stoves, lamps, and other household utilities in which there are open flames, cannot be watched too closely. This line of clothes drying over a gas stove is very dangerous. So is a curtain that a puff of wind can float over an open flame. So is anything combustible that is allowed to come too close to fire. These fires cost over five million dollars

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Cook stoves, lamps, and other house...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children can have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from home for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children can have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents lb. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays. 10 A.M. Saturday. 36 Laight St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years o...

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An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he knows how to get it / J.S. Pughe.

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he...

Illustration shows a large octopus with the face of Richard Croker on top of "N.Y. City Hall" with its tentacles labeled "Tax Department, Fire Dept., Garbage Contract Job, Ramapo Job, Blackmail, Building Dept.,... More

Mansion of former Sen. William A. Clark, 5th Ave., cost $7,000,000

Mansion of former Sen. William A. Clark, 5th Ave., cost $7,000,000

N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY NYC Streets; NY NY Houses; BI RESIDENCES; Geogr.; Shelf.

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'

Naval leaders ask Congress for more armament. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8...

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Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Greely, 91-year-old hero of battlefield and Arctic exploration, held at Arlington National Cemetery. General Greely headed the tragic expedition into the north which cost the lives of 18 men in a party of 25. He later was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 10/22/35

Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Gre...

A group of horses pulling a carriage down a street. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jers...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figuring the cost of chickens by weight. The chickens brought 14 1/2 cents per pound

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figur...

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of two men and a horse.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of t...

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Home of Jack Whinery at Pie Town, New Mexico. The original dugout house cost him thirty cents for nails, and took him ten days to build. Since then two small sleeping rooms have been added. The fence was built by Mrs. Whinery after her husband had cut the slats

Home of Jack Whinery at Pie Town, New Mexico. The original dugout hous...

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Southington, Connecticut. At the health center, the people of Southington may receive medical advice and a certain amount of medical care (such as physical check-ups, which this girl is receiving) without cost

Southington, Connecticut. At the health center, the people of Southing...

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West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hasings in his general store, figuring up, says, "You can't carry on a business, especially nowadays, without a lot of book work. But whether it is for income tax or making up price lists for cost of living comodities, it is all a part of keeping our government going so we can win the war and have the kind of world we want to have"

West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hasings in his general store, figuring up,...

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Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada. Church which cost a half million dollars to build

Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada. Church which cost a half million do...

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Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the process, ruined a good truck, delayed an important lumber shipment, created a dangerous situation on the highway, and nearly cost a number of lives. Such accidents seriously hinder war production

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the p...

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Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

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The crematory money-bilt [sic] system. "The cost of the equipment is great" - Depew

The crematory money-bilt [sic] system. "The cost of the equipment is g...

Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Central Railroad Company caricatured as a railroad cart stove. In the caption, the "s" in the word "system" is written as a "$" and the quotation marks are also repr... More

Court House--city and county buildings--height 256 feet, cost $800,000--Salt Lake City, Utah

Court House--city and county buildings--height 256 feet, cost $800,000...

Exterior from southwest. H 42409 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 160 (C11). Dunlop Society Court H... More

If I wanted a favor I always asked exactly what it was going to cost -- and I always got the favor

If I wanted a favor I always asked exactly what it was going to cost -...

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Goldfish," Saturday evening post, 186:15 (Feb. 7, 1914).

Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan, the newest cutter of the service now anchored at the Navy Yard, Washington D.C. This radio room houses three transmitters and three receiving sets. On the maiden trip she picked up an SOS and towed a schooner 1,500 miles, a record tow. The cutter cost approximately $1,000,000. Ensign Leslie B. Tollaksen, is shown in the photograph

Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Gu...

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S.W. Sparlin: "This scale cost me

S.W. Sparlin: "This scale cost me

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A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Members of the Hillview Cooperative receive their milk at cost. Osage Farms, Missouri

Members of the Hillview Cooperative receive their milk at cost. Osage ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshir...

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Kitchen of one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) in New Madrid County, Missouri, at a cost of about five hundred dollars

Kitchen of one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Securit...

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Kitchen in one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Kitchen in one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Securit...

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Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent construction and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 a month. The project completed on February, 1941, consists almost entirely of apartment-type dwellings

Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project ...

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Defense housing. Ferguson Park, Newport News, Virginia. A 1200-unit project built by the Navy at a cost of $3,500,882 to house civilian workers employed in the shipbuilding yards. Units have from one to four bedrooms and rentals range from $30 to $35 a month, including up to $3.70 worth of utilities

Defense housing. Ferguson Park, Newport News, Virginia. A 1200-unit pr...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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A black and white photo of a group of people eating. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people eating. Office of War Inf...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer... More

The Mormon Temple at Kirtland, Ohio--(59 x 79 feet), cost $70,000 dedicated March 27, 1836

The Mormon Temple at Kirtland, Ohio--(59 x 79 feet), cost $70,000 dedi...

Stereograph showing a couple standing outside in foreground with Mormon temple in background. H49094 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., ... More

Electric Institute of Washington. What does it cost display

Electric Institute of Washington. What does it cost display

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Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Reflecting the widening range of federal activity, the Treasury, as the Nation's Paymaster, issed 35,735,746 checks in 1936, as compared with 28,509,924 in 1935. Guy F. Allen, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury says to make these payments cost about $2,000,000 or close to 6 cents a check

Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Refl...

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Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Secretary Of Interior Harold Ickes (left) congratulates Nathan Straus, New York Housing expert, on his appointment as Head of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus will be responsible for carrying out provisions of the $526,000,000 Wagner Act whereby the new deal hopes to clear city slums and make low cost housing available. Ickes and Straus are shown as they left the White house following a conference with President Roosevelt. 10/20/37

Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Sec...

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Old couple who have moved into tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, in order to save rent and cost of wood in town

Old couple who have moved into tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, in o...

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Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was three dollars and eighteen cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out ...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Air Force (RAF) takes Captain James R. Hendry, U.S. Army Air Force through the British experts' dossier on a German aircraft that fell into British hands. Reciprocal aid includes information whose value cannot be estimated in terms of money and which has been obtained at a cost measured in thousands of lives and three years of hard fighting

One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Ai...

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Family of agricultural day laborer living in one of the four room scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Family of agricultural day laborer living in one of the four room scat...

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Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other mi...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) counselor; Philip Murray, CIO president; and Harold Ruttenberg (speaking), research director, United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, setting a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Ind...

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Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the process, ruined a good truck, delayed an important lumber shipment, created a dangerous situation on the highway, and nearly cost a number of lives. Such accidents seriously hinder war production

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the p...

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Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents lb. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays. 10 A.M. Saturday. 36 Laight St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years o...

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Monopoly Committee turns to housewives for advice on consumer products. Washington, D.C., May 10. Mrs. Alice Belester of Chicago, wife of a carpenter, who was called by the Monopoly Committee today to tell, as Secretary of the United Conference Against the High Cost of Living, what she thought of advertising of products used by housewives. She pointed out some ads which she said, 'is useless to me,' because it failed to mention what grade and weight material was in the dress advertised. 'I don't go in for colored pictures,' she firmly added

Monopoly Committee turns to housewives for advice on consumer products...

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HIGH COST OF LIVING. INVESTIGATORS AT LABOR DEPT. MISS DORTHEA C. DAVIS; MRS. MINNIE E.PATTERSON; MISS MABEL E. WINSLOW; MISS IDA M. PECK; MISS ETHEL M. SMITH; MISS ELIZABETH CHAMBERLAIN; MISS RUTH R. ALLEN; MISS JESSE R. HAVER; MISS HELEN M. DART; MISS IRENE J. GRAHAM; MISS MARJORIE E. LYON; MRS. ARENE

HIGH COST OF LIVING. INVESTIGATORS AT LABOR DEPT. MISS DORTHEA C. DAVI...

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Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodat...

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Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost semi-temporary houses with walls in number two common tongue-and-groove pine boards

Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost sem...

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A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm...

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Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgeton, New Jersey

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transforme...

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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

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dak...

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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

Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in la...

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Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent construction and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 per month. The project completed on February 1941

Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project ...

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor, at a cost of $1,600,000. Photo shows front elevation of the dining room and recreation buildings attached to the structure

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage o...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. This truckload of Florida migrants had been on the way three days and three nights. It was raining much of the time, and one woman contracted pleurisy. The trip cost each person about eight dollars. They arrived at the camp at 4:30 a.m. in a drizzle

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

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Food in Britain. Nearly a million British children receive substantial midday meals in schools. They pay only for the cost of the meal and where the parents cannot afford the low price, arrangements are made by authorities to pay all or part of the costs

Food in Britain. Nearly a million British children receive substantial...

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An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he knows how to get it / J.S. Pughe.

An English country seat and racing stable cost a lot of money - and he...

Illustration shows a large octopus with the face of Richard Croker on top of "N.Y. City Hall" with its tentacles labeled "Tax Department, Fire Dept., Garbage Contract Job, Ramapo Job, Blackmail, Building Dept.,... More

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air from a distance of three to five miles up. The idea behind this gigantic job is to determine compliance in the Agricultural Conservation Program, plan soil conservation or Public Works projects, lay out roads, forests and public parks, drainage ditches, dams and lakes and also to seek to improve National Defense. (1) C.E. Kowalczyk, AAA worker, is shown making a stereoscopic examination of the finished photographic prints to determine the relief or elevation of land surface. 7/28/37

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiator in his car every evening and refills it again with water in the morning to save the cost of antifreeze

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiato...

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Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security...

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Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other mi...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant (floor space: 500' x 900') to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. This hand milling machine, formerly used in manufacture of automobile motors, has been converted to production of airplane engines. In peacetime it was used to mill the pulley keyway on the front of crankshafts. It cost $150 to convert this $1,800 machine with installation of a special fixture to enable milling of staking nicks at each end of crankpin oil hobs. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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The death of Pontiac / De Cost Smith ; Goupil & Co., Paris.

The death of Pontiac / De Cost Smith ; Goupil & Co., Paris.

Pontiac lying on ground; Indian with tomahawk standing over him. 73560C(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Little, Brown, & Co.

Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loans. Washington, D.C., July 12. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today that the president's suggestion for loans totaling $600,000,000 for rural security projects is prudent and economic policy. He said there are 42,000 new tenant farmers each year, and 'if we continue to refuse aid to these needy families, many of them will inevitably drift in to the cities in an effort to get some kind of help there. The cost of supporting them on relief obviously will be far greater than the sum necessary to help them get a new start on the land'

Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loa...

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President lashed Supreme Court in constitution address to nation. Washington, D.C., Sept. 17. Addressing the nation from the foot of the Washington Monument tonight, President Roosevelt hailed the constitution as a 'layman's document, not a lawyer's contract' and struck out at the Supreme Court when he declared its legalistic interpretations on occasions have delayed at 'terrible' cost needed social and economic reforms for 20 years or more. The speech climaxed the Commemoration Constitution Day throughout the country

President lashed Supreme Court in constitution address to nation. Wash...

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[Meat market early in the siege while a whole pig cost $100 and beef $1 per pound -- Port Arthur]

[Meat market early in the siege while a whole pig cost $100 and beef $...

Photograph shows Russian soldiers standing outside a building with slabs of meat hanging on the door. A Russian(?) man and woman stand behind a table, and a Chinese man and two small Chinese children are to the... More

Other junk (See #2962). A pile of scrap machinery outside the Carolina Cotton Mill. This kind cost money. Who cares about the other kind?. Location: [Spartanburg, South Carolina].

Other junk (See #2962). A pile of scrap machinery outside the Carolina...

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Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administration loan. Cost seven hundred dollars. In 1938 bred sixty-four mares. Dawson County, Nebraska

Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administrati...

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy opened bids today on construction of three 35,000 ton battleships today, all bids specified that the dreadnaughts be completed within 52 months. The guns, armor plate, and other accessories to be furnished by the Government cost an estimated 15,000,000 dollars per ship. The ships are the first of that size to be built in 15 years. Seated, left. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Sec. of the Navy Claude Swanson, right. Standing - left- Rear Admiral William G. Du Bose, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair and right- Rear Admiral Charles Conard, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 11/2/38

Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy ...

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A man standing next to an old car in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing next to an old car in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security ...

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A black and white photo of an old car in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of an old car in the snow, Vermont. Farm Secur...

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