The Works Progress Administration At The Buffalo Municipal Airport

Download or read book The Works Progress Administration at the Buffalo Municipal Airport written by James Naro and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical phenomena have every affected our nation's history as has the Great Depression. The seriousness of the situation was more than matched, however, by the ingenuity of our leaders and the sacrifices of the American people as a whole. One of the more significant programs implemented to solve the problems of the Depression was the Works Progress Administration. Although much has been written about the program as a whole, comparatively little deals with individual projects or the effects that these individual projects had on the communities that participated in their planning and development. In this paper, we shall examine one such project -- The Buffalo International Airport -- and assess its impact on the City of Buffalo, hoping to gain an insight into the effects of the Works Progress Administration in its totality. In order to do this adequately, we must first discuss the state of the airport prior to the onslaught of the Depression.