Description
The New Deal had an impact on the development of Reading Regional Airport.
Reading Eagle: The Work Projects Administration (WPA) “built terminal buildings and created runways for Reading Regional Airport in 1941.”
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant for airport improvements as well: PWA Docket No. PA [X]2135
Source notes
"Legacy; Projects from program still in use"; Reading Eagle, Apr. 23, 2005 (page A2).
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 38.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 16, 2018.
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