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...beginning was FDR. People all over the nation got to know those initials. Then came the begats. FDR begat NRA, FERA, CWA, AAA, WPA and PWA. Some begats, like NRA, died without issue, others begat more. OEM (Office for Emergency Management) was the first war bureau. Then NDAC (National Defense Advisory Commission) begat SPAB (Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board), which begat WPB (War Production Board...
...money, but what the railroads do with it. So far, they have not dribbled it away. In the last two years long-parched stockholders got $360,000,000-about 50% of the 1940-41 net. In the same two years the roads repaid $117,529,000 to PWA and RFC, thus cutting their Government debts to $455,244,000, less than half their total original borrowings. Moreover, many a railroad learned well the No. 1 lesson of the '30s: that fixed charges, if not reduced in good times, are the surest way to go broke in bad. Southern Railway...
First cause of delay was a row between PWA and the Federal Security Agency to control the $15,000,000 Congress voted for building clubhouses. After PWA won, construction was tied up further because before the Army Quartermaster Corps gets the green light to start work each individual hut must be approved by 1) the local community, 2) FSA, 3) U.S.O., 4) PWA, 5) the White House. Also, FSA wanted to build big clubhouses, but U.S.O., which has to pay for running them, had more modest ideas (around $80,000-$100,000 each). Also, many local communities are trying...
...mayor of Charleston as a businessman's candidate, carried every ward in the city. Maybank put Charleston back on its feet financially. But his political career really in in 1935, when as chairman of South Carolina's Public Service Authority he sponsored a PWA power project on the big, clay-red, ambling Santee River, which empties into the sea some 45 miles northeast of Charleston...
...after Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...