Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February. Without soliciting another application for loans or gifts Administrator Ickes declared he could distribute a second three billion from the surplus supply of pleas already in his office. Observing the number of jobs made by public works, the Senate was not at all sure that this was the most practical way to fight unemployment.
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