Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union County. In 1936 he returned to Western Electric as a clerk, but soon moved on to personnel training. Two years later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell, then New York administrator of the Works Progress Administration, hired him as labor-relations adviser. He managed to keep the New York WPA going despite the trouble caused by strike-happy, left-wing factions among WPA workers. Somervell took him to Washington in 1941, put him in charge of labor relations for the Army's construction program. Mitchell soon became director of the War Department's industrial personnel division, with responsibility...
...seven years of its existence, the WPA Art Project spent $35 million, and produced 2,500 murals, 18,800 sculptures, 108,000 paintings, but no masterpiece...
...mainspring of the economy can use the 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...
...peace as arms. Somehow the unhealthy gap between U.S. exports and imports, that drained for eign nations of their gold and upset their currencies, had to be closed. But is con tinued U.S. aid the only way? In 1952 both the U.S. and Europe decided that a global WPA was no solution. Significantly, it is the Europeans themselves, chafing at the necessity for continued handouts and their dependency on every rise & fall of the American economy, who feel strong enough to raise the cry: "Trade, not aid!" In early winter, their cry was answered by a bold program advanced...
...flatness of North Dakota's wheat and cattle plains, flaming gas flares from 69 Amerada wells stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...