Post-war Planning, No. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Post-war Planning. November 23, December 1, 2, and 7, 1943, January 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27, February 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 23, March 1, and 2, 1944 ... |
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... funds , and have been waiting to see if they are going to get any Federal help , will go ahead ; those that have not funds , and cannot do anything , will see their towns collapse , maybe . And I think private business wants this same ...
... funds , and have been waiting to see if they are going to get any Federal help , will go ahead ; those that have not funds , and cannot do anything , will see their towns collapse , maybe . And I think private business wants this same ...
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... funds that would go to the State department of public works and buildings , or the State highway department , as we call it - I would like to see them , in turn , get in touch with the county superintendents of highways and each county ...
... funds that would go to the State department of public works and buildings , or the State highway department , as we call it - I would like to see them , in turn , get in touch with the county superintendents of highways and each county ...
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... funds and city funds , that those people will continue to live there , and do you not think we have to have some program worked out so that those people know they will not be there permanently ? Mr. OUTLAND . Mr. Chairman , it was my ...
... funds and city funds , that those people will continue to live there , and do you not think we have to have some program worked out so that those people know they will not be there permanently ? Mr. OUTLAND . Mr. Chairman , it was my ...
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... funds to encourage some planning ? Is that what you are driving at ? Mr. FOREMAN . It may be necessary to make some funds available . Perhaps it can be done on some kind of loan basis for the actual plans themselves . Mr. ARNOLD . You ...
... funds to encourage some planning ? Is that what you are driving at ? Mr. FOREMAN . It may be necessary to make some funds available . Perhaps it can be done on some kind of loan basis for the actual plans themselves . Mr. ARNOLD . You ...
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... funds , or that it would be desirable for public funds to provide that much construction . CONSTRUCTION FOR NEED The association is specific in its policy of advocating that all construction under- taken after the war be undertaken ...
... funds , or that it would be desirable for public funds to provide that much construction . CONSTRUCTION FOR NEED The association is specific in its policy of advocating that all construction under- taken after the war be undertaken ...
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