by Alistair Cooke · 1 Oct 2008 · 369pp · 121,161 words
off the streets to build highways and plant ten million trees. He mobilized actors in a federal theater and, in the happiest inspiration of the Works Progress Administration, hired unemployed scholars, writers, and local historians to produce several hundred volumes of guidebooks to the states. He stopped the automatic production of groaning farm
by David Graeber · 14 May 2018 · 385pp · 123,168 words
colluded in featherbedding and overstaffing in the public sector or with government contractors, when they weren’t establishing self-conscious make-work programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as the United States did at the height of the Great Depression. All of this was supposed to have ended with the collapse of
by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words
the Travis County courthouse on Guadalupe Street, a grand, gray “Depression Moderne’’ building with elaborate justice-themed bas-relief friezes, completed in 1931 by the Works Progress Administration. In a dark stone entryway I met up with Mark Bankston, Bill Ogden, and Bankston’s parents, Don and Susan, who had come in from
by Weimar Gay · 31 Dec 2001
a man could string out a year of intermittent jobs, he would be eligible for a state relief check or a federal job from the Works Progress Administration. If he got a WPA job, he could plant trees or pour concrete for new sidewalks. 289 When the war began, the Okies were ready
by Mark Hiss · 2 Jan 2007
. From this vantage point, you get a fine view of the: 2 County Administration Center This complex was built in 1936 with funds from the Works Progress Administration, and was dedicated in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 23-foot-high granite sculpture in front, Guardian of Water, was completed by Donal
by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words
Mortgage Association, and the Export-Import Bank. Its loans fiÂ�nanced New Deal programs like the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Works Progress Administration. Torbjorn Sirevag, The Eclipse of the New Deal (New York: Garland, 1985), 79; Timmons, Jesse H. Jones, 279–82. Bethany E. Moreton, “The Soul of
by Cherie L. Weible and Karen L. Janke · 15 Apr 2011 · 144pp · 55,142 words
are familiar with bookmobiles, few know that in 1935, during the Great Depression, Kentucky’s Pack Horse Library Project was established as one of the Works Progress Administration’s programs in eastern Kentucky.7 To provide reading materials to rural communities of eastern Kentucky, librarians would ride horses or mules, walk, or even
by Alissa Hamilton · 26 Apr 2010 · 243pp · 69,667 words
. 6. Hodgson, “Horticultural Varieties of Citrus,” 454; Carita Doggett Corse, “The History of Citrus in Florida,” in Stories of Florida (Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1938-1939), 4; Hamilton P. Traub and Ralph T. Robinson, “Improvement of Subtropical Fruit Crops: Citrus,” in The Yearbook of Agriculture 1937 (GPO, 1937), 749
by Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer · 31 Aug 2015 · 261pp · 78,884 words
strong argument that government itself ought to create a substantially larger share of the jobs than it does now—jobs like those provided by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Certainly, there is ample work to be done in our communities. The nation’s infrastructure is badly out-of-date in
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, 57–59, 80, 89, 125, 157–58 workforce statistics, 124–27 work loading, 46, 61–62 work scheduling instability. See also just-in-time scheduling Works Progress Administration, 161 World Bank, xvi YouthBuild, 94 Zedlewski, Sheila, 26–27 zoning laws, 166 About the Authors KATHRYN J. EDIN, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and
by Darren L. Smith and Kay Gill · 1 Jan 2004
beach, playground. Activities: Camping, hiking, boating, canoeing, fishing, swimming, water-skiing. Special Features: A stone cairn in the park commemorates the work accomplished by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) crews of the 1930s. ★3625★ North Dakota Forest Service 307 1st St E Bottineau, ND 58318 (701) 228-5422 - Phone (701) 228-5448 - Fax
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, golf, basketball, tennis, football, soccer, baseball, softball. Special Features: Park’s stone grills, wooden pavilions, and walking trails were built in the late 1930s by Works Progress Administration. Chastain’s amphitheater hosts jazz, rock, and pop concerts during the summer. ★4806★ GRANT PARK 537 Park Ave SE Atlanta, GA 30312 Phone: 404-624
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