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The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression .
Central Texas Turnpike, area around Austin, Texas: 2003–2008 $1.5 billion 2001 $2.8 billion (2008) [9] [10] $3.1 billion I-10 Katy Freeway Expansion (Interstate 10 in Texas) 2007–2011 $2.57 billion [11] Intercounty Connector, Montgomery County, Maryland: 1997–2029 $1.66 billion 2009 $2.2 billion $3.17 billion
This is a list of projects that were undertaken by the Public Works Administration. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. P ...
Public works is a multi-dimensional concept in economics and politics, touching on multiple arenas including: recreation (parks, beaches, trails), aesthetics (trees, green space), economy (goods and people movement, energy), law (police and courts), and neighborhood (community centers, social services buildings).
Public Works Administration, the construction agency of the US New Deal program; Patients' Welfare Association in Karachi, Pakistan; Progressive Writers' Association, in pre-partition India; The Polytechnic of Western Australia
Civil Works Administration workers cleaning and painting the gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol (1934).. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
Traditional rug hooking is a craft in which rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, rug warp or monks cloth. The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a latch hook mounted in a handle (usually wood) for leverage. [2]
After "overseeing construction projects large and small from one of the city's strongest buildings, the county determined that the department needed more modern quarters and pulled up stakes in 1977," according to the Los Angeles City Planning Department, which designated the building as the Historic-Cultural Monument #873.