He won the first prize of $ 15, singing his first original song " WPA Blues ".

Hank Williams had won a talent contest at the Montgomery Empire Theater singing an original song entitled " WPA Blues " in December 1937.

WPA canoe house, University of Iowa campus, 1937.

A mural for the new post office built in 1937 was commissioned by the WPA and painted by Hilton Leech of Bridgeport, CT to commemorate this event.

Remarkable preservation success occurred during the 1990s when the community exhibition hall, the Municipal Auditorium, designed by Thomas Reed Martin and Clarence A. Martin, was listed on the National Register of Historic Paces and meticulously restored to its depression recovery era, 1937 WPA community project, completion status and its architectural glory — both inside and out.

" At the official dedication of the new town, state WPA director Jennings remarked that in 1937 " it would have taken an extravagant sense of optimism to imagine the scene which lies before us here today ... Now that it is all over ...

In 1937 the Ellsinore School was rebuilt with WPA labor.

1937 Works Progress Administration | WPA drunk driving poster

It was extensively remodeled in 1937 with WPA funds, and again in 1985.

Planting was begun in 1937 with WPA funds supplemented by local donations.

1937 Works Progress Administration | WPA poster warning pedestrians not to jaywalk

Poster for Festival of American Dance, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project, WPA, 1937.

Works Progress Administration | WPA poster for " Salut au Monde " with Tamiris credits, 1937

( 1937 ), a dance for the Federal Dance Project of the WPA that explored the problems facing African-Americans and won Dance Magazine's first award for group choreography.

War Memorial Stadium was originally constructed as a WPA project in 1937.

Planting was begun in 1937 with WPA funds supplemented by local donations, and the arboretum officially opened in May 1940.

Plans for the airport, which was to be federally sponsored and funded through the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), were approved by President Roosevelt on September 3, 1937.

" The building was never considered particularly notable ; for example, it is not mentioned in the 1937 WPA state guide to Massachusetts.

In 1937, CCC and the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) created Lake Carlton, named for Carlton Weaver.

In 1937, he left the University of Florida to join the WPA Florida Writers ' Project, and at the age of 21, was put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies.

The Army formed a new branch for armament & photography training in Denver, and on October 4, 1937 the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) began work to convert the grounds of the former Agnes Memorial Sanatorium into a modern airfield.

The Cradle Will Rock was originally a WPA project, and it was to begin previews on Broadway on June 16, 1937 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre with elaborate sets and a full orchestra.

Plantings by the WPA under Chet Corry ( appointed superintendent in 1937 ) improved the landscaping of the park entrance.

* 1937: David Margolis begins work on WPA murals in entrance rotunda.

It was the end of the State Fair until, in 1937, a group of New Mexico businessmen led by Governor Clyde Tingley convinced President Franklin Roosevelt to grant Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) funds for construction of fairground buildings in the middle of Albuquerque, of which Tingley Coliseum would be the center.

* " I'm Still Here ", a song from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical, Follies: " I've slept in shanties, guest of the WPA, and I'm here.

WPA also covered Tex's song ' Sgt.

Works Progress Administration | WPA poster for The Alarm Clock by Avery Hopwood

First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.

Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) funds were used by the Bureau of Air Commerce to construct three graded, unpaved runways meant to accommodate Earhart's modern twin-engined Lockheed Model 10 Electra.

directed by Remo Bufano in New York, 1939, by the U. S. Works Project Administration ( WPA ).

U. S. WPA Federal Theatre Project poster for the production by the Marionette Theatre, New York, 1939.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

WPA and WPA2 encryption have successfully been brute-force attacked by reducing the workload by a factor of 50 in comparison to conventional CPUs and some hundred in case of FPGAs.

The PWA was much less controversial than its rival agency with a confusingly similar name, the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), headed by Harry Hopkins, which focused on smaller projects and hired unemployed unskilled workers.

The WPA, headed by Harry Hopkins, engaged in smaller projects in close cooperation with local governments — such as building a city hall or sewers or sidewalks.

The WPA hired only people on relief who were paid directly by the federal government.

Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States.

Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the WPA was funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935.

The WPA was largely shaped by Harry Hopkins, close adviser to President Roosevelt.

The WPA was initially intended to be an extension of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration work program, which funded projects run by states and cities.

Altogether during 1938, about 45 percent of the nation's African-American families were either on relief or were employed by the WPA.

However, by 1939, the perception of discrimination against African Americans had changed to the point that the NAACP magazine Opportunity hailed the WPA, saying:

During the middle of the Great Depression, the Elizabethton, Tennessee city government utilized labor and resources provided by WPA to complete a newly established, nine-hole municipal golf course on seventy acres of land that was deeded in 1936 to the city for $ 1. 00 by local golfers.