1978: NOAA announces gender-neutral hurricane naming system
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On Nov. 8, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and put Harry L. Hopkins in charge of the short-term agency, a New Deal program created under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. The new agency created construction jobs, principally improving or constructing buildings and bridges. The CWA ended on March 31, 1934, after spending $200 million per month and providing 4 million jobs.
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