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Villard, Oswald Garrison | April 11, 1934 issue

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Days and days of travel. Unending miles through a country standing just as it was when in full career it was suddenly nipped by the chilling frost of economic depression. The star of empire not taking its way West—or anywhere else. Great cities admitting that their latest censuses show a decrease. Barren stretches of sage-brush and gray earth, seeming more forlorn than ever in their winter dullness. Small towns looking seedy and unkempt, with the usual disfiguring, abandoned automobiles carefully placed so as to meet the eye of the traveler first of all. Cities that were dependent upon the lumber trade, like those of Puget Sound, still in the slough of despond, waiting and waiting for somebody, anybody, to build a house again.

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TRAVEL; DEPRESSIONS; AUTOMOBILES; CITIES & towns; LUMBER trade; HOUSE construction
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