Word: pwa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...date PWA has earmarked $146,000,000 for the Government itself to tear down slums in 33 cities, build places fit to live in. Of a total of 39 projects, not a spadeful of earth has been broken. Only in eight cases have steps been taken to acquire the ground. To blame: greedy landowners, hostile landlords, pettifogging politicians...
Earliest of the Administration's housing programs was the set-up whereby PWA would advance money to private limited dividend corporations to erect model housing communities. Results have been almost grotesque. Two projects are under way in New York City, one in The Bronx called Hillside, one in Queens called Boulevard Gardens...
...announcement last week, New York from $13 per share to $18. Both stocks would have soared astronomically if the outlook had been as sweet as it first appeared. Most railroads have no cash to spare for such improvements, even though they will save money in the end. Prospects of PWA brake loans are bleak...
...summer of 1934 when jobless men from factory and skyscraper turned to pick out PWA highways or to hoe subsistence gardens, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service searched for a relationship between a man's occupation and his health. Death proved to be the best indicator of such relationship, providing the following rates, which Dr. Gumming published last week...
...Federal, State and local governments (must) act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced." (This explains the FERA, the PWA, the CWA, and other economies...