Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed and in 1930 Florida Congressmen got a bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan, then to PWA, finally to WPA, all without success until the September hurricane blew the Dixie into big black headlines throughout...
...does it happen that it isn't a PWA project...
Chief Darling's 20-month record is, however, far from one of complete frustration. By an unnoticed rider to an innocuous joint resolution he got $6,000,000 out of Congress, From WPA, PWA, the Forestry Service and other agencies he chivvied another $8,500,000 to spend primarily for their purposes, but indirectly with benefits to his wild game. He has actually turned some 900,000 acres of submarginal land over to his beloved ducks and other animals...
...Army Corps of Engineers . . . might not have done the job either, but at least it had an engineer's chance to do it and Mr. Ickes didn't have a Chinaman's. Either as an aid to recovery, a construction program or a vehicle for employment, PWA is a failure-honest but complete...
...nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...