Navigating Golf World. According to the R&A’s Golf Around the World 2017 there are a 33,161 golf courses in the world. The R&A, or, Royal and Ancient, derives its name from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, but as the R&A makes clear on its web site, it is “separate and distinct from” the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews.
The Idabel golf course is significant because it constitutes a most unique WPA recreational project. The agency undertook construction of only two courses in all of Oklahoma, one of which–at Idabel–was in the southeastern counties. It …
The attached PDFs are a rough draft of the Minnesota Works Progress Administration Built Golf Courses story. These PDFs include the author's notes and comments for future illustrations, inclusion and clarification. The article I hope to publish in the Minnesota Historical Society
now in place for a WPA–funded public golf course.2 Golf is usually thought of as a pastime for the wealthy and leisured, so the idea of the federal government using limited public resources, especially during the Great Depression, to build golf courses may seem surprising. Yet the Benson golf course was not an anomaly. Nationally, the WPA ...
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal Agency that was created in 1935 to help provide relief for U.S. citizens during the Great Depression.Oct 13, 2021
The WPA was designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans. At its height in late 1938, more than 3.3 million Americans worked for the WPA.Jul 13, 2017
The WPA employed skilled and unskilled workers in a great variety of work projects—many of which were public works projects such as creating parks, and building roads, bridges, schools, and other public structures.Apr 8, 2022
Timberline Lodge (Clackamas County, Oregon) From the foundation stones to the art on its walls to the hand-woven bedspreads, the entire building was a WPA creation, which put a crew to work for 18 months. Taylor calls it the “crown jewel” of the WPA.Jan 19, 2017
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security standard for computing devices equipped with wireless internet connections. WPA was developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to provide more sophisticated data encryption and better user authentication than Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the original Wi-Fi security standard.
National Youth Admin. Provided work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25....NameFederal Art Project (part of WPA)AbbreviationFAPRelief, Recovery, or ReformReliefFirst/Second New DealSecondExists today?No13 more columns
the Works Progress AdministrationWPA 1941, Courtesy: Library of Congress. Of all of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people's lives. Roosevelt's work-relief program employed more than 8.5 million people.
The dam was completed with New Deal funds from the Public Works Administration in 1935. Under the same act, the Bureau of Reclamation also raised Imperial Dam (the All-American Canal) and Parker Dam during the New Deal era.
The WPA provided jobs to needy men, women, and youth to work mostly on public construction projects. The agency also gave employment opportunities of struggling artists, writers, actors, and musicians. Many of those employed by the WPA were African Americans.Sep 9, 2014
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.
On the WPA's cost "The WPA cost about $130 billion in [today's] money. The [Public Works Administration] was $72 billion. So, compare $130 billion for the WPA, which created 8.5 million jobs, with the $275 billion that Obama spent for his stimulus package. That created an estimated 640,000 jobs.Jan 16, 2018
The single largest cache of materials in the custody of the Pennsylvania State Archives relating to the activities of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) resides in Record Group 13, the: Records of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission .
Paul Knepper, of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, began working with airplanes at an early age, earning his pilot's license at the age of 16. Before graduating from high school, Knepper helped barnstorming pilots from 1928 to 1930, later completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Hometown Airport and Hazelton Airport from 1930 to 1935, and worked as a pilot, mechanic, and field manager at Schuylkill Airport from 1935 to 1936. Knepper worked for Douglas Aircraft Corporation in California from 1936 to 1938 when he accepted a position as Assistant Instructor at the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. He was appointed Head Instructor several months later and while at the Institute he drew the plans for his new plane, the KA-1 Crusader. In 1941 he established a factory in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. to market his plane commercially but with the advent of World War II commercial aviation ceased and factory workers found jobs in war industries. Knepper became supervisor of the NYA and National Defense Training School at the Airport, and joined the Civil Air Patrol for anti-submarine missions off Suffolk County, Long Island. The effort to produce the KA-1 commercially was never revived.
This record group contains the: Records of the Pennsylvania State Planning Board that was first created by Governor Gifford Pinchot in 1934. In 1936 the State Planning Board was formally established as an independent administrative board by Act No. 32 (July 1936) to conduct research, prepare plans for the physical and economic development of the state, and examine all plans proposed new projects. Studies were conducted concerning economic and agricultural productivity, soil resources, minerals, water and forest products, population growth, employment and income trends, transportation and housing, recreational facilities, flood protection, stream pollution, highway safety, and other fields vital to the public welfare. The Minutes and Agenda 1934-1978 (10 cartons) {series #10.58} document the meetings of the State Planning Board. The Works Progress Administration Bituminous Coal and Coal Mining Maps 1934-1936 (3 microfilm rolls) {series #10.60} depict quadrangle maps of bituminous coal areas drafted by the Works Progress Administration. Each map is drawn on a scale of one inch per mile. The maps provide the WPA project number and the name of the geographic area represented in the map. The legends for the maps provide information concerning active and abandoned oil wells, active and abandoned gas wells, dry holes, shafts, barrier pillars, crop lines, coal contours, drift and slope openings, county lines, township lines, and borough lines.
The General State Authority was both an independent public corporation and governmental body created in 1935 to enable the Commonwealth to circumvent constitutional restrictions on its borrowing capacity. Since the state could not legally take advantage of federal grant and loan offers from the Public Works Administration, the Authority was given the responsibility of negotiating for the funds needed to expand and modernize state facilities. The objective of the Authority was to build new buildings and remodel old ones that they then leased to the state until the end of their amortization period at which time they would turn the buildings over to the Commonwealth . The General State Authority was abolished in 1945, but the need for additional state facilities led to the creation of another General State Authority in 1949. Though the Department of General Services was created in 1975 to replace the General State Authority and the Department of Property and Supplies, the Authority will continue to function until the outstanding debts from earlier projects are satisfied. The Construction Photographs and Blueprints, 1932-1939. (10 boxes, 4 folders) {series #9.1} primarily consist of 8x10 black and white photographs of construction, expansion, or modernization of various Commonwealth-owned properties. Some blueprints are interfiled among the photographs. Each print is labeled with the job and docket number, name of facility, location, date, name of contractor and the status of construction. Local commercial photographers were often hired and are occasionally identified on the print. Subjects are principally exterior views of construction in progress at Pennsylvania National Guard Armories, hospitals, teachers colleges, prisons and miscellaneous state buildings. Views of armories include those at Altoona, Canonsburg, Clearfield, Coraopolis, Gettysburg, Hamburg, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lewistown, Ligonier, Philadelphia, Tunkhannock, Waynesboro and Williamsport. Hospitals include those at Allentown, Ashland, Blossburg, Coaldale, Connellsville, Danville, Fairview, Hazleton, Locust Mountain, Nanticoke, Norristown, Phillipsburg, Scranton, Torrance, Warren, and Wernersville; the Western Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Hospital in Butler, and the Western Pennsylvania Psychiatric Hospital at Pittsburgh. Teachers Colleges include those at Bloomsburg, California, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester. Prison/Industrial Homes and Schools include the Eastern State Penitentiary, Huntingdon Industrial School, Lawn Maximum Security Prison, Industrial School at Pennhurst, Polk State School and the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon.
In its report to newly elected Governor Gifford Pinchot in January, 1931, the Commission recommended that a marker be erected in Deal, England to mark the spot from which William Penn sailed in October 1682 and that a statue of William Penn also be erected in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. The Commission further recommended that the City of Chester be recognized as William Penn's first landing place in Pennsylvania and that $250,000 be appropriated for the celebration. In 1932 the William Penn Commemoration Committee of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission was placed in charge of public observances commemorating William Penn's landing. A major observance was held in Convention Hall, West Philadelphia on October 24, 1932. On October 28, 1932 two bronze tablets commemorating William Penn were unveiled in Chester, Pennsylvania.
On the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, Kentucky’s libertarian senator, Rand Paul, has proposed a more supply-side-oriented strategy: Let certain counties eliminate capital-gains taxes and institute a special federal income tax of 5 percent in those areas.
Jeff Whitehead runs the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, which helps retrain laid-off coal miners and find them new jobs.
It’s magical. But it is also poor, even if economic growth and the federal safety-net programs have drastically improved what that poverty looks like.