...During the first period, deep in the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt came into office, started up the Works Progress Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He created the Social Security system...
...During the first period, deep in the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt came into office, started up the Works Progress Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He created the Social Security system...
...engineering firms also submitted proposals for how they would demolish Rutherford Hall, built by the federal Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. The firms also had to detail how they would rebuild a much larger building on the site...
...joined the call to save Rutherford, one of UGA's first dormitories for women when the Depression-era Works Progress Administration built it in 1939 on Myers Quad."It is a piece not only of university history, but women's history...
...Largest flood on record in Augusta 1936-40: Levee is enlarged with assistance from Corps of Engineers and Works Progress Administration. 1964: Major flood; levee gates and stop-logs are closed. 1975: Augusta Canal is placed on National...
...Largest flood on record in Augusta 1936-40: Levee is enlarged with assistance from Corps of Engineers and Works Progress Administration. 1964: Major flood; levee gates and stop-logs are closed. 1975: Augusta Canal is placed on National...
...the site over the centuries.The building on the site was restored as a theater in the 1930s by the federal Works Progress Administration.Redden said ticket sales are running about 20 percent ahead of last season. Last year, despite a troubled...
...was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Matt Aitken. - 2200 Broad St. -- Julian Smith Casino, built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project on Lake Olmstead. A preservation award was presented to the Recreation Department of Augusta-Richmond...
...fact, many golf courses actually closed their doors." The city secured a $12,000 federal grant and used Works Progress Administration labor to make property improvements, such as the construction of the sandstone wall by the road and the steps...
...the only ones who saw it.Laning and three assistants were paid $23 a week for the painting through the Works Progress Administration, a Depression-era jobs program used to preserve workers' skills. Years later, Laning would earn $150...
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