Apple-cheeked, apple-growing Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, whose committee has been mulling over ways & means of cutting down Government expenses, turned in his report to Congress.
The report recommended savings that would cut $1,301,075,000 in non-defense items out of the Government's expenditures, which this fiscal year will amount to $25 billion. Some of them:
> No more CCC, no more non-defense activities for NYA. (The President two months ago suggested that Congress combine CCC and NYA for economy's sake, got no action.)
> Reductions in WPA, Public Works (including flood control) and Federal Highways.
> Dropping of all land-purchase, Farm Tenant...
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