GREAT PROGRAMME.
Vast Building Scheme in United States. HUGE AMOUNT TO BE SPENT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. (Received December 5. 1.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 4. A vast building programme contemplating an expenditure of 14.000.000,000 dollars in a two years- period for the stimulating of re-employment is understood to have bee noutlined in an exhaustive N.R.A. survey. One section summarises the possible outlets of construction under Government financing. The other is an inventory of real property and a programme for the maintenance of the balance between real property and construction. New construction contemplated includes the following; Dollars. Housing 4,532,000,00(1 Recreation facilities .... 450. 000.000 Health and sanitaation .. 136,000,000 Level crossing and highways 2,400.000,000 Express highways 1.800,000,000 Railway improvement .. 1,500,000,000 Industrial and commercial improvement 1,800,000.000 Education facilities .... 300,000,000 Modernisation of existing structures 650,000,000
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 7
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