RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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year. This final grant was designed to give the
University of Pennsylvania time in which to
build other sources of support for the industrial
research being carried on. The program of work
was described in the Annual Report of the
Foundation for 1934; the research staff of the
department is highly specialized in order to
carry on the six intensive industrial studies which
have been continuously under way for years and
are the main feature of the department's work.
A second 1935 grant, amounting to 220,000,
was to the University of Manchester for the work
of the Economic Research Department over a
five-year period. The work of the department
centers around the problems of the Manchester
area, which has suffered severely from the postwar
changes in England's economic life. Attention
is being given to problems of unemployment,
especially the employment prospects for juveniles,
housing for the masses, and the changing
problems confronting public authorities. The
university is supporting the department liberally.
With Foundation support on a tapering basis
for a limited period, there is a satisfactory prospect
that the budget of this department can be
stabilized at the existing level.
The third grant in 193S was #10,000 to the
Economic Institute of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Cracow, Poland, toward a program of
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