Papers, 1936-1974.

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Papers, 1936-1974.

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Correspondence; productivity studies; transcripts of meetings, speeches, and training lectures; syllabi, lecture notes, examinations, and other material from economics courses; scrapbooks, memoranda, and other items pertaining to University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration and Economics Dept. controversies about dean Harold R. Bowen, qualifications of College of Commerce faculty, administrative procedures, and reorganization (1950-1951); research notes on economics of higher education; articles; research materials and other papers for Neiswanger's book Elementary Statistical Methods (1943, 1956, 1962); proposal for a lecture series on quantitative methods in underdeveloped countries; memoranda and research on a household expenditure and family member study conducted in Thailand; research materials on the economies of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India; and other papers. Organizations and institutions represented include National Bureau of Economic Research, Works Progress Administration, Machinery Division of U.S. Office of Price Administration, U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Economic Statistics, National Science Foundation, Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, and Sathāban Bandin Phatthanabō̜rihānsāt (Thailand National Institute of Development Administration).

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

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Professor of economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (earlier name: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)). From the description of Papers, 1936-1974. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28413057 ...

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