Show 1 fi IN F U WORKS TA TS lET I IF F fir first st Week of Spring Finds I Huge Nuge Program Throughout Through Through- 1 out U U. U S. S Under Way I WASHINGTON March 23 3 J tee the first fird week V of spring pub- pub rv g contracts swelled to 1 u t c 95 i 3 the larg largest t total told yet jet et reported employment t com com- w to 1 the presidents U e th he fame ame time the bureau of At t reported construction Statistic bo 1 had been au au- 1 in cities durIng This was as a decrease of or 25 per art from January permits of or but the decrease decease was as le less thin 1 the 43 3 per cent for the same cl tut year works contracts offices and other federal t r i-r port t tate state and municipal build tta colleges hospitals churches t. t te dies t-dies hl highways hwa's and streets sewer fiction and other works orb of this type r Were ere let jet in 38 states Mates and the t of or Columbia trman Wood in I 1 that the pro projects had been let letl during last week eek said the total toul of or all contracts of this type reported report d to the committee since Decem December r 1 1 1930 was liaS 43 The Tle largest contract reported last W week was 10 for a parcel post building In New York City I |