Poverty trails drouth refugees to Pacific Northwest
Portland reports that poverty from the dust bowl follows drouth refugees to Oregon Washington and Idaho. The Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission says rapid development of agricultural land and industry is needed to support 10 000 000 acres of potential new cultivated area and 150 000 new farm units.
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Portland
Ore
Great Plains
Green Hills
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Beins Poverty Shadowed by Sister’s Wealth
A fragment reflects a speaker’s view that poverty felt tolerable until his sister married into wealth and visited to display fine clothes, highlighting social contrast and family pride.
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Publishers Syndicate
Commission Eyes Irrigation and Development Projects
The commission considered relief possibilities for recent arrivals through irrigation and industrialization efforts. Proposed programs included Grand Coulée Dam and development of the Columbia and Snake River basins with economical land clearance to aid newcomers within the last 18 months.
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Ber
Commission
Grand Coulée Dam
Columbia
Snake River
Junk dealer pans rust from mine machinery for gold
California junk dealer Olin M. Hayes buys scrap piles from old mines and runs them through a concrete mixer to remove rust and extract gold. In four months of work he claims to have recovered about $5,500.
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California
San Jose
Calif
Olin M. Hayes
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Drouth
Dust Bowl
Northwest
Robert Quillen
Hanes Sports & Shirts
Ioam Intoe
Hanes
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Hanes Underwear
Kansas
Public Service Co
Bigelow
Sanford Mills
Home Furnishings
Iwo
Weaver
Lawrence
Kayser
van Raalte
New York
Monogram
Girl Scouts
Weaver’s Junior Shop
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