Typical sign on a WPA project

One project of the WPA was funding state-level library service demonstration projects, which was intended to create new areas of library service to underserved populations and to extend rural service.

The WPA was hesitant to approve the project ; in March, Frank Holcomb, Chairman of the County Commissioners, was opposed to any major additional expenses.

These were sarcastic references to WPA projects that sometimes slowed down deliberately because foremen had an incentive to keep going, rather than finish a project.

It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's " Great Plains Shelterbelt " WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30, 233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for.

There are 88 residences in the East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District, along with a synagogue, gas sation, and WPA project.

In 1945, he commented “ I did not realize there was another league, although I did receive some literature telling about a WPA project ”.

Bird's visit resulted in a 2-year WPA project to uncover the dinosaur prints.

The federal courthouse was built in 1933 as a WPA project.

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.

The island was connected to the West Bank of the river through a WPA project in the thirties.

The bleachers were a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) project that began in 1935 and were completed in 1936.

At least one of the buildings on the high school campus was a project of the federal Works Projects Administration ( WPA ).

In the 1930s, a WPA project constructed a swimming pool and solarium at the city park, which had been part of the city's original layout.

On November 19, 2007, the Tuttle post office building, a historic field stone structure created in 1938 as a WPA project, was significantly damaged after a furnace ignited and fire gutted the building.

* Pawnee Bath House, a 1939 WPA project

Some kindergarten children attended school in the former Hawley High School, a WPA project and located in the borough, up until a few years ago when they were transferred back to the primary school.

A school building which housed elementary and high school students was built in 1938 as a WPA project.

In 1939 it was restored through the efforts of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and a Parowan-sponsored WPA project.

It is home to the Hubbard Park Lodge, constructed as a WPA project in 1936.

" This program hired more than a dozen Wisconsin Oneida Indians on a WPA project to record and translate texts in the Oneida language.

The lodge was constructed between 1936 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) project during the Great Depression.

One on the last major efforts to construct such tables was the Mathematical Tables Project that was started in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), employing 450 out-of-work clerks to tabulate higher mathematical functions, and lasted through World War II.

The City of Savannah acquired a 600 acre tract in the vicinity of Cherokee Hill, one of the highest elevations in the county, and construction of a new airfield commenced under a WPA project.

Dealey Plaza is a Dallas city park, land donated by early Dallas philanthropist and business person, Sarah Horton Cockrell, completed in 1940 as a WPA project on the west edge of downtown Dallas where three streets converge ( Main Street, Elm Street, and Commerce Street ) to pass under a railroad bridge known locally as the triple underpass.

* The Story of Immokalee 1938 WPA interview covering founding, slave era, post-Civil War Reconstruction and up through Great Depression.

The Sylacauga Public Library, founded in 1936, moved into a new Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) building in 1939 and was renamed in honor of local factory owner and former Alabama governor B.

The slave narratives were based on the WPA slave interviews conducted during the 1930s with over two-thousand former slaves.

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.

I read quite a few interviews performed with former slaves by the WPA during the thirties and I got their rhythm and how they said certain things.

Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south end of Main Street, but later merged secondary-school operations with four other area schools ( Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville ) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School.

The federal government in the form of man power, the WPA, paid for $ 400, 000 while a school board bond issue paid for the materials.

Artists of the WPA united to form the 1935 Harlem Artists ' Guild, which developed community art facilities in major cities.

Lomax's biographer, Nolan Porterfield, notes that the outlines of the famed WPA State Guides resulting from this work resemble Lomax and Benedict ’ s earlier Book of Texas.

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.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

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.

* U. S. Census Press Release on Soundex and WPA.

During this time Alston founded the Harlem Artists ’ Guild with Savage and Elba Lightfoot to work towards equality in WPA art programs in New York.

At this time he was awarded WPA Project Number 1262 – an opportunity to oversee a group of artists creating murals and to supervise their painting for the Harlem Hospital.

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal ( 2007 ), providing a context for American public works programs, and detailing major agencies of the New Deal: CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA, and TVA.

To obtain large-scale federal money the mayor became a close partner of Roosevelt and New Deal agencies such as CWA, PWA and WPA, which poured $ 1. 1 billion into the city from 1934 – 39.

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.

Wireless communications can be encrypted using protocols such as WPA / WPA2 or the older ( and less secure ) WEP.

From 1938 to 1942, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.

At this stage, Friedman said that he and his wife " regarded the job-creation programs such as the WPA, CCC, and PWA appropriate responses to the critical situation ," but not " the price-and wage-fixing measures of the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers ' Project — part of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA )— sent out interviewers to collect accounts from various groups, including surviving witnesses of the Civil War, slavery, and other major historical events.

Some systems, such as PGP and Wi-Fi WPA, apply a computation-intensive hash to the password to slow such attacks.

RC4 has become part of some commonly used encryption protocols and standards, including WEP and WPA for wireless cards and TLS.

Many large scale WPA projects were constructed to reemploy citizens in the 1930s.

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.

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