ENGINEERING DREAM
ABSORBING THE UNEMPLOYED
WASHINGTON, February To
An engineering dream for the relief of unemployment, transcending anything President Hoover ever thought of, has been dreamed by the Presidentelect (Mr Roosevelt).
He would turn the*West Tennessee watershed “into the most interestinoN O industrial, re-afforestation and fanning experiment any Goyeruinont-. has overundertaken”' by using 200,000 unemployed during the-coming' three years, on his magnificent- plan. The project- would extend' into half a dozen States, besides Tennessee, and would eventually control the floods of the Miskissipp-i River, and would jneroinise the capacity of the Muscle Shoals' 'Ala-Lama) power plant at the Tennessee River rapids by 3,000,000 horsepower.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1933, Page 3
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