Rarely, other fibres such as paper or wood or asbestos have been used. The polymer is usually an epoxy, vinylester or polyester thermosetting plastic, and phenol formaldehyde resins are still in use. FRPs are commonly used in the aerospace, automotive, marine, construction industries and ballistic armor.
On  March 31, 1933, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation creating the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a Depression-era federal agency. The CCC was one of the New Deal programs initiated in the first one hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential administration.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created on March 31, 1933, by a joint act of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the purpose of relieving the acute condition of widespread distress and unemployment then existing in the United States, and in order to provide for the restoration of the country's depleted natural resources and the ...