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7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around: Media

These New Deal government agencies had some staying power.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) signing into law the Emergency Railroad...
Samuel Rayburn Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Social Security card
U.S. Social Security card.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters, Washington, D.C.
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house
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Replicas of the synchronous communications satellites that allowed the 1968 Olympic...
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ATM
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Texas dust clouds
Dust clouds over the Texas Panhandle, photograph by Farm Security Administration...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Norris Dam
Norris Dam, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, Tennessee.
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