ocr: q Without the stimulus of government spending, the economy went into a slide in the fall of 1937 that didm't halt until the following summer. Undustrial production declined by 33 percent, and wages fell 35 percent, People fonght over food in the streets ofCleveland. The welfare rolls tripled in Chicago. In Detroit, WPA enrellment went up 500 percent between October 1937and May 1938 It was beginning to Iook like 1933 all aver again.
