Washington, Oct. 25.
The recent business upturn, led by steel and automobiles, encouraged President Roosevelt as he resumed study today of the budget deficit problem, the solution of which largely depends on a sharp curtailment of the relief spending programme.
The upward trend of business is immediately important politically as well as economically because of the November Congressional elections in a fortnight.
Polls and individual surveys forecast Republican gains because the farm prices have slumped despite the New Deal programmes and through the depression has been checked. The first New Neal re-employment dri however, was not expected to shift Congressional control—United Press.
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