Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency agencies, with impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...
...First Step. Balding, ebullient Mr. Myers, an old hand at putting utility companies together, first moved into Nebraska in 1934. Five years later he put through the deals which enabled Nebraska's "little TVA," which was built on PWA money, to buy 14 private power companies in the state (TIME...
...Jobs. Here Dewey's point of view is basically distinct from that of the New Deal. He stands for an end to Government hostility toward business. He stands for giving private enterprise the chance to create all possible jobs, and for moving in with Government-made work (the PWA kind rather than WPA leaf-raking)-but only to buttress the job-creating activity of the citizens themselves. Most importantly, he rejects the New Deal premise that the days of economic progress for America are finished...
Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...
...President listed more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...