BIG PROPOSALS
HOOVER MEETS INDUSTRIAL LEADERS EXTENSIVE ROADING , SCHEME INCREASING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. November 24, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, November 23. The President (Mr. Herbert Hoover) conferred with heads of the construction industries, who informed him there would be scope for the expenditure of at least eleven hundred million dollars in State and Federal road building, plus eleven hundred million dollars by counties and municipalities, not including other public and private construction work. Railroad heads at Chicago telegraphed that they would buy over 2,500,000 tons of steel during the coming year. Mr. Hoover’s law enforcement commission has undertaken to conduct throughout the nation a survey of the effect of slums upon crime with the idea of great building programmes for congested city districts. Apparently the President’s conferences are having a widespread effect in increasing public confidence in “prosperity.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 52, 25 November 1929, Page 11
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142BIG PROPOSALS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 52, 25 November 1929, Page 11
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