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J.D.C. Spends $212,000 Each Day for Relief; About $65,000,000 Allocated in 10 Months

October 12, 1947
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With the announcement of October appropriations amounting to $5,241,000, the Joint Distribution Committee reported today that in the first ten months of 1947 it has allocated the sum of $64,465,000 for its overseas relief, resettlement and reconstruction operations.

JDC appropriations thus far this year are running at the rate of $212,000 per day and are the greatest since the agency’s founding in 1914, according to Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Committee. JDC funds are provided by the $170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal.

Mr. Leavitt said that the record JDC appropriations “have been necessitated by the greatest needs in its history.” The JDC has already expended this year $6,000,000 more than it spent in all of 1946 and more than twice the amount it used in 1945 to carry out its welfare and assistance programs in behalf of Jewish survivors, he pointed out.

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