ROAD BUILDING
A HUGE SCHEME. MR HOOVER AND “PROSPERITY.” (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Washington, November 22. Mr Hoover has conferred with the heads of 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. The railroad heads at Chicago telegraphed they would buy over twenty-five hundred thousand 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 widespread effect in increasing public confidence in “prosperity.”
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Southland Times, Issue 20940, 25 November 1929, Page 7
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131ROAD BUILDING Southland Times, Issue 20940, 25 November 1929, Page 7
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