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"This Nation asks
for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put
people to work."
First Inauguration Speech, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt |
On Works Progress Administration (WPA) public works. Reel 1, highways
and streets are graded and paved. A concrete bed is laid for an Atlantic
City reservoir. Shows airports at Newark, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago,
and Philadelphia under construction. Buildings are razed in slum
clearance projects. A sewerage project is completed. Reel 2, traffic
control studies are made. Auto drivers are given fitness tests. Trachoma
patients in rural areas are examined by traveling nurses and taken to
WPA clinics. Shows supervised play and child care at WPA nursery
schools, and adult education classes. Reel 3, murals are painted at the
West Point Military Academy. WPA units present stage shows. Reel 4, WPA
units carry out relief projects in flooded areas and in dust-bowl
sections. Director Harry Hopkins inspects flooded areas in 1936. Food
and medical supplies are delivered to dust storm victims. Dams are
constructed to check erosion. Reel 5 shows park and playground areas
that have been improved by WPA projects. Includes shots of Fort Niagara,
restored colonial forts, and Abraham Lincoln landmarks in Springfield,
Illinois.
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