Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma. Red Phillips was against it from the start. Oklahoma did not want it, said Oklahoma's aggressive Governor. According to Governor Phillips, the dam would destroy $889,275 worth of the State's highways. To his way of thinking, a $350,000 bridge built by PWA did not compensate the State for the loss; PWA owed Oklahoma another $500,000. And he vowed he would never let the dam be finished until that account was settled...
...last fortnight South Carolina's Public Service Authority announced that it was closing its Charleston office, moving to the State capital at Columbia. Reason given: the Charleston headquarters were only for preliminary work, now done. Along with the Authority would go PWA employes in Charleston...
...meet the approval of the many high state and national government officials who protested suspension of the School in 1936--the University would be doing itself irreparable harm in abolishing the autonomy, if not the existence, of its Planning School. Whether Harvard's Administration likes them or not, the PWA, TVA, and WPA are carrying out the will of the majority of Americans that certain jobs be done, and done efficiently. And to do them efficiently, they need well-trained regional planners. Abolition of the Planning School will only have the effect of lowering the standards of these agencies...
...revolt of consumer-minded, non-agrarian New Dealers that ousted George Peek. Less than two years later he was himself ousted in a similar revolt against the more durable Chester Davis. Rex Tugwell, his friend and sponsor, quickly got him placed in RFC. Thence he moved to PWA, for which he won the Alabama Power case against the late great Newton D. Baker. By 1937 he was back in private practice, had earned $38,000 helping reorganize Missouri Pacific...
Construction. The first three weeks of 1940 saw $159,299,000 of contracts awarded, 39% less than in 1939's first three weeks. Reason: Federal, State and municipal awards were down 37% (mostly due to drying up of PWA) to $111,159,000, more than offsetting a 27% gain in private awards...