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Jan 1939
Engineering Economics and Public Works: A Symposium: An Appeal to Reason
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The bracketed comment is by the writer. Neither does the writer hold with those who would maintain the unemployed in corrosive idleness, destructive of all that is best in American life, rather than at self-respecting work, at a somewhat greater expense, from which the public gains material and spiritual returns. The work, in fact, must be worth while in the public interest and not uneconomic and wasteful, involving a tragic loss of public monies for ever-continuing interest charges and upkeep.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 104 • Issue 1 • January 1939
Pages: 690 - 700
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© 1939 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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William J. Wilgus, HM.ASCE
Weathersfield, Vt.
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