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Herbert Hoover: OUR DRIVE for increase in construction and improvement work to take up unemployment is showing most encouraging results…

On the recordJanuary 2, 1930
OUR DRIVE for increase in construction and improvement work to take up unemployment is showing most encouraging results, and it looks as if the work undertaken will be larger for 1930 than for 1929.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Public Works and Unemployment.

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