Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candy to suck in the corner without anyone's being allowed to go anywhere near him." When a Roosevelt order deprived Ickes of some of his precious agencies, Ickes moaned: "I really believe that I am better physically when I am overworked. Ever since the President took PWA and other agencies away from me, I have felt a distinct loss in energy and initiative...
...Treasury as a regulator, but a government that considers itself the economic mainspring will put its economic power in the hands of the planners and managers. The passage of the Government's fiscal power from the Treasury to Harry Hopkins of WPA and Harold Ickes of PWA symbolized a whole new philosophy of the relation of government and business...
...dropped out of the company). Shrewdly, he figured that public works would get a big play as a relief measure, and when the big New Deal projects came along he had the experience and the equipment to go after them. He landed $3,000,000 worth of contracts building PWA-financed irrigation canals in Nebraska, often got jobs by bidding for them at cost, figuring that prices would drop enough afterward for him to make a profit (they did). By 1938, he was big enough to handle more than $6,000,000 in contracts to help build Chicago...