I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

In 2005, the CCC established that the winner of the Chinese event was to be given a seat at the World Championships.

The Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17 – 23.

Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300, 000 ; in nine years 2. 5 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families ).

Despite its popular support, the CCC was never a permanent agency.

The organization and administration of the CCC was a new experiment in operations for a federal government agency.

A CCC Advisory Council was composed of a representative from each of the supervising departments.

The first CCC enrollee was selected 8 April and subsequent lists of unemployed men were supplied by state and local welfare and relief agencies for immediate enrollment.

The typical CCC enrollee was a U. S. citizen, unmarried, unemployed male, 18 – 25 years of age.

Each CCC camp was located in the area of particular conservation work to be performed, and organized around a complement of up to 200 civilian enrollees in a designated numbered " company " unit.

The CCC camp was a temporary community in itself, structured to have barracks ( initially Army tents ) for 50 enrollees each, officer / technical staff quarters, medical dispensary, mess hall, recreation hall, educational building, lavatory and showers, technical / administrative offices, tool room / blacksmith shop and motor pool garages.

From 1 April 1935 to 31 March 1936 was the period of greatest activity and work accomplished by the CCC program.

During this period the public response to the CCC program was overwhelmingly popular.

During this period the CCC was called in to provide disaster relief following 1937 floods in New York, Vermont and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and response and clean-up after the 1938 hurricane in New England.

By 1940 the CCC was no longer wholly a relief agency, rapidly losing its non-military character, and becoming a system for work-training as its ranks had become increasingly younger, with life-inexperienced enrollees.

Although the CCC was probably the most popular New Deal program, it never became a permanent agency.

Most CCC work, except for wildland firefighting, was shifted onto U. S. military bases to help with construction.

Liquidation of the CCC was ordered by Congress by the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act ( 56 Stat.

The CCC program was never officially terminated.

This new program differed drastically from the original CCC as its goal was primarily youth development rather than economic revival.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

Year 300 ( CCC ) was a leap year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

In 1968, Commercial Credit Corporation was the target of a hostile takeover by Loews Inc. Loews had acquired nearly 10 % of CCC, which it intended to break up on acquisition.

* Cap ' n Crunch: The original Cap ' n Crunch cereal, which at the time was referred to as The Crunchy Captain's Cereal ( CCC ), is made of sweetened, yellow, square-shaped cereal pieces made by combining corn and oats.

The university participates in a special guaranteed admissions program with the Connecticut Community Colleges ( CCC ) that is designed for academically qualified students who are attending a Connecticut community college and who are planning to transfer to the University of Connecticut in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Business, or Engineering.

The questions in the CCC are algorithmic in nature, designed to test a student's ability to design and code algorithms rather than their knowledge of APIs or language-specific features.

Unlike the original CCC, the NCCC was not created to be a public work relief program, but rather was designed to help communities meet self-identified needs through service projects and develop leadership skills in its participants.

* Derby County founded by Derbyshire CCC to provide a winter activity for players and supporters.

* The Cairo Cargo City ( CCC ) will provide state of the art facilities to support the growth in cargo traffic through the airport.

The CCC serves to unite and provide services for churches in China by formulating Church Order, encouraging theological education through seminaries and Bible schools, such as Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, publishing Bibles and other Christian materials, and coordinating training programs for churches.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation in the 1930s called for the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) to provide jobs for young men.

* CCC, Roman numeral for 300

Implicitly, the CCC also led to a greater public awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's natural resources ; and the continued need for a carefully planned, comprehensive national program for the protection and development of natural resources.

CCC camps in Michigan ; the tents were soon replaced by barracks built by Army contractors for the enrollees.

The CCC operated separate programs for veterans and Native Americans.

Following the second Bonus Army march on Washington D. C. a modification of the CCC program through Executive Order 6129 on 11 May now included work opportunities for veterans.

The CCC operated an entirely separate division for members of federally recognized Indian tribes: the Indian Emergency Conservation Work, IECW, or CCC-ID.

Responding to favorable public opinion to alleviate unemployment Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, on 8 April 1935, which included continued funding for the CCC program through 31 March 1937.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Liquidation appropriations for the CCC continued through 20 April 1948.

After the CCC disbanded, the federal agencies responsible for administration of public lands organized their own seasonal fire crews, modeled after the CCC, which performed a firefighting function formerly done by the CCC and provided the same sort of outdoor work experience for young people.

Hitch-Making Good In Hard Times by Jeanette Ingold is a novel about how a teenager learns life lessons, skills for work and develops a character for himself in CCC camp.