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WPA
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WPA
abbr.
Work Projects Administration

WPA (in the US)
abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration


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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the method to make the people dependent on government, while the Casa Grande Project was a communitizing effort.
The Works Progress Administration (essentially, the federal stimulus fund of the 1930s-era Depression) constructed the partially buried 15-million-gallon reservoir in 1939 between Lincoln and Lawrence streets on College Hill in south Eugene.
Sure, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built roads; the Tennessee Valley Authority put up dams; and the Civilian Conservation Corps planted trees.
 
 
 
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