For an average salary of $41.57 a month, Works Progress Administration employees built bridges, roads, public buildings, public parks and airports.

The Public Works Administration was ready to give the city $7,200,000 outright for this triborough span, lend it $37,000,000 more. The Triborough Bridge Authority had yet to sign its Federal loan ...

“The inauguration of the civil works program and its speedy getting into action is, to our minds, one of the wisest moves the administration has yet made,” the paper wrote on Nov. 28, 1933.