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largest of the Depression era relief measures employing millions and impacting almost every community; offered work to the unemployed for such tasks as roadwork, building construction, slum clearance, reforestation, and rural rehabilitation (1935-1943)- It was the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the depression.Tillie Olsen -- I Stand Here Ironing
WPA = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work
- If he held his mouth right, Mr. Cunningham could get a WPA job, but his land would go to ruin if he left it, and he was willing to go hungry to keep his land and vote as he pleased.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- I studied the situation, then laid the matter before white friends of mine who held influential positions in the Works Progress Administration.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- I went to work for the state office of the Works Progress Administration as junior publicity agent.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- In the 1930s and early 1940s, workers from the Works Progress Administration made a series of recordings and photographs in this part of Texas.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- I telephoned my white friends in the Works Progress Administration: "Transfer me at once to another job, or I'll be murdered.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
WPA = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work
WPA = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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