Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PWA project work began 15 months ago converting the old single-track railroad line and its 80-mile string of ocean bridges into a 20-foot, two-lane highway between Lower Matecumbe Key and Key West. Widened and decked over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks...
...introduced in Congress by Senator Carter Glass with Franklin Roosevelt's approval was a bill to restore to RFC the power to make loans to "any business enterprise" which is unable to find funds elsewhere. RFC's original power to make self-liquidating loans was given to PWA in 1933 and RFC lending power is now limited by numerous restrictions. The Glass amendment is suggested only as an emergency measure to expire in a year's time...
...case of the misused PWA money: Because of irregularities in the expenditure of PWA money for college buildings, the university had to return $32,000 to the U. S. Government. Particularly pointed were alumni references to the mystery of the "missing" lumber, $545 worth of PWA wood which President Johnson was accused of having spirited away at dead of night...
...employs tactics "almost equivalent to gangsterism." His answer to the charges: 1) He had asked Dean Slowe to suggest an acting dean, sent her a note hoping she would soon be back; 2) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes had found "no implication of dishonesty" in the handling of PWA money or PWA lumber; 3) Laboratory Assistant Thompson had failed to produce evidence of a seduction...
...record as a utility business. Since 1934 TVA has made a total net income of $2,087,497 by selling power to 17 municipalities and 15 co-operatives in four States-Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Many localities have been helped to buy or build their distributing systems by PWA loans-and-grants of which up to 45% may be outright gifts. This month when the Supreme Court upheld the legality of such PWA assistance, the way was cleared for releasing $146,917,803 in approved grants which had been held up for three years, and a good share...