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The WPA's first appropriation in 1935 was $4.9 billion (about $15 per person in the U.S., around 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP). [2] Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA supplied paid jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while building up the public infrastructure of the US, such as parks, schools, and roads. Most ...
Bank of America's logo from 1969 to 1998 Bank of America Tower, headquarters for Bank of America's investment banking operations, seen from Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, in 2015 Following passage of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by the U.S. Congress , [ 24 ] BankAmerica Corporation was established for the purpose of owning and ...
Christine Bold (1999), The WPA Guides: Mapping America, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1578061946; Gross, Andrew S. "The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification" Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. Vol 62 Number 1. p. 85-111. 2006
Bank of America, formerly known as the Bank of Italy, was founded in San Francisco, California, United States, on October 17, 1904, [1] by Amadeo Pietro Giannini. By 1945, it had grown by a branch banking strategy to become the world's largest commercial bank with 493 branches in California and assets totaling $5 billion.
This work produced between 1933 and 1942 [2] ranges in content and form from Dorothea Lange's photographs for the Farm Security Administration to the Coit Tower murals to the library-etiquette posters from the Federal Art Project to the architecture of the Solomon Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. The New Deal sought to "democratize the arts ...
Donald Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's father. President-elect Donald Trump during his first term pardoned Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, after he was convicted of ...
Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US $2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports are ...
Dinesh Khara, Chairman of State Bank of India; Madhav Nair, Country Head and CEO of Mashreq Bank; and S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao, MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank, were elected as deputy chairmen. Rakesh Sharma, MD and CEO of IDBI Bank, was elected as the Honorary Secretary for 2020–2021. The Chief Executive of IBA is Sunil Mehta, and chief ...