Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free piano lessons to housewives and eventually providing jobs for 8.5 million Americans who otherwise would have been unemployed. Its activities have suddenly become of considerably more than antiquarian interest. The Nixon Administration has sneered that Democrats pushing public employment programs to relieve current joblessness are only "rediscovering the WPA" although at least one Administration official has suggested that it create something like the WPA itself...
Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA built or improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...
...this country." It includes, he said, not only a huge, employment-building deficit in the federal budget, but also the stabilizing wage and price controls. After Democrats suggested that the Administration start a program of mass hiring for public service jobs. Stein scoffed that they were merely "rediscovering the WPA...
During the Depression, when Eudora Welty worked as a publicity agent for the WPA in the state of Mississippi just after she had gotten out of Mississippi State College, she took her kodak along. She developed her photographs in the kitchen at night. And now she has chosen one hundred of them for her album, black and white photographs with five pages of introduction...
Chopping in the field. Warren County. Hog-killing time. Hinds County. WPA farm-to-market road worker. Lowndes County. Saturday off Jackson. With a dog. Madison County. With a baby. Hinds County. With a chum. Madison County. Home. Claiborne County. Home. Pearl River. Home. Jackson. A slave's apron showing souls in progress to Heaven or Hell. Yalobusha County. Ida M'Toy, retired midwife. Jackson...