STANDARD OF LIVING.
PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT. UNITED STATES EXPENDITURE. Received October 30, 1.40 pTm. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. “A higher and better standard of living for the people of the United States will be one of the achievements” of the Federal expenditures on public works relief programmes for which--3,300,000,000 dollars have ben eappropriated and 255,000,000 dollars for non-Federal projects already allotted Mi- Harold Ickes, Secretary for the Interior, stated to-night. He pointed out that besides millions of dollars spent on water works, bridges, roads, hospitals, power plants, flood control etc., hundreds of allowances were being made, some as small as a few hundred dollars, for permanent improvements, even making crossroads in villages. It is announced that ' the Government will make purchases of gold abroad as the second step of President Roosevelt’s recently indicated ’financial policy.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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