Public works administration

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 aimed at long-range recovery by spending over $4 billion on some 34,000 projects that included public buildings, highways, and parkways (i.e. the Grand Coulee Dam of the Columbia River).

Category:1933 establishments in the United States
Category:1940s disestablishments in the United States
Category:1943 disestablishments
Category:20th century in Washington, D.C.
Category:United States government agencies