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Sunday, December 31, 1933
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The Headlines
REPORT ROOSEVELT BACKS LAND BUYING IN BROAD PROGRAM; Some in Official Circles Say Action on Sub-Marginal Tracts Begins in 1934. $350,000,000 COST SET But $50,000,000 Would Be First Fund, With 50,000,000 Acres Taken Eventually. WOULD CUT CROP OUTPUT But Chief Aim Would Be Social in Moving Farmers Over Long Period to Better Lands. REPORT ROOSEVELT BACKS LAND BUYING
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General
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Hardboiled
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Tech Check
FM Radio, Drive-In Theater & Polyethylene.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
33,759 days ago
(92 years, 179 days)