Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...small, cheap (perhaps $700) airplane for mass consumption (TIME, Nov. 20). (Substantial rumor: PWA funds to design and develop the plane...
...November building contracts in states east of the Rockies were 11% above October, 54% above a year ago and at the highest level in two years. PWA awards accounted for the bulk of the gain, but private construction topped November 1932 by 11%.-Dodge Reports...
...Half way between a lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which...
...facts. PWA announced, were these: Within about 90 days, the Administration had allotted $1,659,003,310, more than one-half of its appropriation. But so far only $68,294,884 had been withdrawn from the Treasury. "The delay," said Administrator workers, "where there is any, is in putting the money to work after it is allotted." One reason that mass re-employment was being retarded on Federal works was that part of the money so far allotted is earmarked for building dams and battleships. These projects require elaborate preliminary planning, but last week The Engineering News Record was confident...
...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...