WPA

Work Projects Administration: the former federal agency (1935–43) charged with instituting and administering public works in order to relieve national unemployment.Originally Works Progress Administration.

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For example, the bookmobile was a WPA program—old bread and milk trucks full of nailed-up shelves.
James Lee Burke Talks About His Fiction, History, and the American Dream|David Masciotra|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We have these amazing parks that were park of the WPA in the 1930s.
Ann Patchett: How I Write|Noah Charney|October 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The first trails at the area were cut by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the winter of 1936.
Olympians Dish on Their Favorite Spots to Ski & Snowboard|The Daily Beast|October 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The architecture of the WPA had a very distinct, and very consistent, aesthetic: austere Art Deco, bordering on the monolithic.
Obama's Building Boom: Will His Architecture Legacy Be as Lasting as FDR's?|Ian Volner|January 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Much of her ability to read has been gained from attendance in recent years in WPA "opportunity classes" in the city.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Work Projects Administration

British Dictionary definitions for wpa

WPA

abbreviation for (in the US)

Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration

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