What is 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 [[United States Secretary of the Interior|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]] {{US-stub}}