VARIOUS MEASURES
RESTORING CONFIDENCE
HOOVER IN AMERICAN" CRISIS
WASHINGTON, 23r& November. 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 m increasing public confidence in. "prosperity."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 9
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VARIOUS MEASURES
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 9
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