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  • The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

    Creator:
    Butcher, Karyle S.
    Abstract:
    The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
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    those measures was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In Oregon the WPA built upon earlier state

  • The natural history of public works development

    Creator:
    Robertson, Robert A.
    Abstract:
    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    from Big Cliff Reservoir. There are no public lands of the United States included within this project