Passage: The WPA built traditional infrastructure of the New Deal such as roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, hospitals, sidewalks, waterworks, and post-offices, but also constructed museums, swimming pools, parks, community centers, playgrounds, coliseums, markets, fairgrounds, tennis courts, zoos, botanical gardens, auditoriums, waterfronts, city halls, gyms, and university unions. Most of these are still in use today. The amount of infrastructure projects of the WPA included 40,000 new and 85,000 improved buildings. These new buildings included 5,900 new schools; 9,300 new auditoriums, gyms, and recreational buildings; 1,000 new libraries; 7,000 new dormitories; and 900 new armories. In addition, infrastructure projects included 2,302 stadiums, grandstands, and bleachers; 52 fairgrounds and rodeo grounds; 1,686 parks covering 75,152 acres; 3,185 playgrounds; 3,026 athletic fields; 805 swimming pools; 1,817 handball courts; 10,070 tennis courts; 2,261 horseshoe pits; 1,101 ice-skating areas; 138 outdoor theatres; 254 golf courses; and 65 ski jumps. Total expenditures on WPA projects through June 1941 totaled approximately $11.4 billion—the equivalent of $}} today. Over $4 billion was spent on highway, road, and street projects; more than $1 billion on public buildings, including the iconic Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, and Timberline Lodge in Oregons Mount Hood National Forest.
Did the WPA build more tennis courts or outdoor theatres? Did the WPA work on fewer new buildings or work on more improved buildings? How many dollars (in billions) of the total spent by WPA was not spent on highway, road and street projects? How many infrastructure projects each had less builds than the parks project? How many more handball courts than ice-skating areas were constructed? How many more swimming pools than outdoor theatres were constructed? How many playgrounds and athletic fields did the WPA build? How many types of infrastructure projects had less than 100 constructed? How many types of infrastructure projects were more than 1000 added and no more than 3000? Which infrastructure projects did the WPA build less than 200 of? Which infrastructure projects had less builds than the swimming pools project? Which infrastructure projects had more than 2000 built of? Which new buildings that the WPA built numbered 1000 or less? Which type of buildings were more than 5000 for each constructed? Which type of infrastructure projects each had less than 1000 constructed?