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.
We still had a bit of time before we needed to hit the road back home, so we decided to check out the CCC museum in the State Park before we left. The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was a New Deal program enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a public works relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 and put 3 million unemployed, unmarried men to work on unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.