Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
When the New Deal, tackling Depression, launched NRA, WPA, PWA, AAA, a host of new officials turned up in Washington to tackle new jobs. Last week the vanguard of a new host appeared to tackle the problem of a world...
...PWA simply has no funds to administer any program beyond next June 30," said Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody, explaining why he must fire half his staff of 10/417 by January i, wind up all PWA public housing, power and similar projects by the end of fiscal...
...Dealers concentrated on gloomy calculations for the crucial second quarter of 1940. They figured on sharp cuts in spending: that WPA under new appropriations would be nearly $250,000,000 under April-June 1939, that PWA outlay, now around $150,000,000 a quarter, would sink to nothing by next spring. In the first half of 1939, although business in general was not booming, nonresidential construction hit a recovery high that exceeded even 1937. For this Government spending was responsible as the figures for contracts let show...
...over the State, plunging into account books like alligators plopping in a bayou, were investigators, Federal. State and parish. They were probing WPA irregularities, PWA irregularities, use of the mails to defraud, income-tax evasion and fraud, defalcations and irregularities in L. S. U. construction, evasions of the Connally "hot oil" law, what happens to the famed 5% deductions from all State employes' paychecks, and everything else they could think...