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The article reports on the decline of insurance trade due to the floods, storms, and quake hitting most parts of the U.S. in the spring of 1965. It notes that only a small part of the total loss was covered by insurance. It notes the insurance companies' provision of the money flowing into a disaster area. Meanwhile, President Lyndon Johnson allocates $5 million for flood relief, while the Small Business Administration release disaster loans about $20 million.

The article discusses the events that inflicted the U.S. in 1973. It is considered the period that cost Americans more in terms of their self-image than any year. The year marks the appearance of the Watergate scandal, economic malaise, and energy shortages. Nature also wreaks havoc in the states as the total damage for natural disasters during the period exceeds 1.2 billion dollars and the federal funds expended to help local government and citizens for this disaster have amounted to an estimated 750 million dollars.

The article reports on the proposed appropriation by Harry Hopkins, director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) for relief in the U.S. as of 1938.

The article focuses on state and local funds available for direct relief from November 1, 1935 to June 30, 1936, based from the U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) report. The report is based from the remaining funds for direct relief, after deducting contributions made by local sponsors for Public Works Administration (WPA) work projects. States which raised emergency relief funds from 1930 to 1931 include Maine, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. According to the report, expenditures by 39 states rose to 163,507,000 dollars from 1933 to 1934.

The author reflects on the greater fund needed by the American Red Cross in 1956. He relates that the organization has spent all its resources due to a disaster in 1955. Even the $8,000,000 disaster-reserve fund which the Red Cross kept for heavy rainy days was spent. Red Cross needs about $90,000,000 in 1956 which is $5,000,000 more than was sought last year.

Reports on the increasing budget for disaster relief in the U.S. Surge in the number of government dependents; Issuance of a bill authorizing the lending without security to victims of natural disasters; Analysis of the socio-economic and political implications of government spending for emergence management in the country.