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* 1935The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
In 1941 it was rumored to have been inspected by the federal Works Progress Administration to determine its structural strength, but there is no evidence of this.
Works Progress Administration | WPA poster for The Alarm Clock by Avery Hopwood
Category: Works Progress Administration in Maryland
Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
On 30 June 1939 legislation ceased the CCC program to be an independent agency, transferred to the Federal Security Agency along with the Social Security Board, National Youth Administration, U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.
* Works Progress Administration
The situation would soon change, as many citizens went to work for the Works Progress Administration and Davenport experienced a boom after World War II.
* 1977 – Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter ( Nickel Creek, Fiction Family and Works Progress Administration )
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.
* 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler ( Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration )
Savage was able to secure Lawrence a scholarship to the American Artists School and a paid position with the Works Progress Administration.
Category: Works Progress Administration workers
* 1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress 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.
Works Progress Administration | WPA poster, 1940
** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration
* May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).
Federal Writers ' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts ( 1937 ).
He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 ( joining the American Federation of Teachers ), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).
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.
Perhaps the largest contribution to the public works system in the U. S. came out of President Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s New Deal initiatives particularly the creation of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) in 1935.
Painted by James Daughtery of Weston as part of the Works Progress Administration program in 1935, the mural depicts Putnam, Greenwich's war hero, aiming his musket at snarling wolves while all around him Native Americans hurl tomahawks and men armed with guns and knives tussle.
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 PWA should not be confused with its great rival the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), though both were part of the New Deal.

Works and Administration
With grants from the Public Works Administration ( PWA ), the Indian Division built schools and operated an extensive road-building program in and around many reservations.
* 1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
* November 8 – New Deal: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
directed by Remo Bufano in New York, 1939, by the U. S. Works Project Administration ( WPA ).

Works and helped
The Federal Works Projects Administration, which also arrived in the 1930s, helped build McGhee-Tyson Airport and expand Neyland Stadium.
In 1841 he moved to Canada to work on the Welland Canal, and also helped finish the building of Yonge Street and other projects, for the Department of Public Works in southern Ontario.
Forster helped Landor in publishing his plays and the ` Collected Works ' in 1846, and was employed on The Examiner to which Landor frequently contributed on political and other subjects.
In 1935, Gore helped lead the charge against funding the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).
He helped organize the Cañon City Water Works Company and served as its secretary and treasurer for many years.
Additional lands were acquired over the next two years, and the Civil Conservation Corps, part of the Works Progress Administration, helped develop the property.
His uncle helped Eddy secure a clerical job at the Mott Iron Works, a plumbing supply company.
Works such as Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City are examples of such work that helped establish contemporary connotations of the term.
Works was an abolitionist who helped thousands of slaves flee to freedom in the north.
On May 10, 2002 then Attorney General Blumenthal and Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier helped to stop the hostile takeover of New Britain-based Stanley Works, a major Connecticut employer, by filing a lawsuit alleging that the move to reincorporate in Bermuda based on a shareholder's vote of May 9 was " rife with voting irregularities.
Through the Board of Public Works, the Virginia state government helped finance turnpikes among its programs to encourage internal improvements, with tolls collected to defray operating costs and retire debt.
The now renamed Ministry of Works helped with the road on one occasion by ' misplacing ' a culvert destined for another roading project.
In 1938 Fullerton College was helped by the Works Progress Administration, to build three college buildings on the new college campus.
* Rhys Davies, British mechanical engineer who helped form Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.
The federal government's Works Progress Administration programs during the Great Depression helped Orlando remain economically stable.
Years after perestroika brought a significant change in the life of the city, the Iron and Steel Plant was reorganized as a joint-stock company Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ( MISW or MMK ), which helped with the reconstruction of the railway and building a new airport.
The Virginia Board of Public Works was a governmental agency which oversaw and helped finance the development of Virginia's transportation-related internal improvements during the 19th century.
Claudius Crozet ( 1789 – 1864 ) a civil engineer and educator who helped found Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) was Principal Engineer and later Chief Engineer of the Board of Public Works.
In 1941 he moved back to Crewe to become Works Superintendent and helped drive efficient locomotive and munitions work there.
To provide practical training, Dyer helped set up the Akabane Engineering Works, the largest in the Empire of Japan.
At NAVSEA, Reimann helped oversee the 1988 – 89 repair of the USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) by Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine, after it was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine during Operation Earnest Will.
In 1787, Pulteney commissioned Telford to design and supervise restoration works at Shrewsbury Castle, and helped his appointment as Surveyor of Public Works for Shropshire.
He served in the Conservative administrations of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan respectively as Minister of Works from 1951 to 1954 ( in which position, he helped organise the 1953 Coronation ), as Minister of Education from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1962 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959.

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