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...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...
...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...