Word: pwa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession...
...Welfare for insane asylum buildings at Milledgeville and other projects, turned up one with Robert & Co. which promised the firm 6% (some $300,000) for "architectural and engineering services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen baldly accused Chip Robert of "stealing" $45,000 of the taxpayers' money, snorted: "I am reliably informed that cities...
...Charles Edison on the job. Recent naval history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy the U. S. has spent $2,742,000,000 since 1933, is asked to appropriate $785,987,000 more for the coming fiscal year...
...Bugs" galore harassed the hurry-up ships built with PWA money, were still plaguing the Navy in 1936. For speed and efficiency in an essentially industrial enterprise, Franklin Roosevelt needed a man who believed in a Big Navy, who understood manufacturing, who also believed in the New Deal and who had no ingrained reverence for gold braid. All these qualities he found in Charles Edison...
Pressagent Straus runs his crew of ex-newsmen in PWA-Interior like a well-organized city staff, spurs them to dig up the kind of feature stories that newspapers are glad to get. Last week Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...