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Statement* Spiraling costs also have hit our schools very seriously. In fact 1951-year dollars purchased only about one-half as nuch school building construction as could have been bought with 1945- year dollars. For example, one million dollars spent for school building construction during the past year purchased only about as nuch school plant as $568,000 could have bought at the end of World War II or as much as $446,000 could have purchased in 1940 before U. S. entry into World War II. MBy Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., on "School Construction Costs," to New York Times, January 1952.