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Show v administration. 1,810,093 under the public works administration including 347, 623 in civilian conservation con-servation corps. Approximately $2,900,000,000 of the $3,300,000,000 fund for public works has been allocated, which indicates that for every $1,000 in the process of being spent, a man without a job has found one. ICKES FIRES ATALSMITH WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (republic (re-public Works Administrator Ickes replied to criticism of the PWA program by Alfred E. Smith by announcing that approximately 3,000,000 jobless have found work i under the job-making set-up. "The facts speak for themselves. them-selves. Nobody can intelligently appraise the public works program pro-gram without studying these figures," fig-ures," said Ickes. He classified the jobs made possible pos-sible by PWA funds as follows: 1,183,267 under the civil works |