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Frances Wowk 1914 - 1997

Frances Wowk of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on April 12, 1914, and died at age 83 years old on May 2, 1997.

Frances Wowk
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19135
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April 12, 1914
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In 1914, in the year that Frances Wowk was born, in August, the Panama Canal opened to traffic. Begun by the French in the 1880's and abandoned, the United States undertook further construction in 1904. After 10 years, and the elimination of malaria carrying mosquitoes (which caused immense delays for the French and the Americans), the 48 mile long artificial waterway - a series of locks - created a shortcut for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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In 1933, she was 19 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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Wowk, Mary (Sep 9, 1891 - Aug 1974) Wowk, Andrew (Mar 2, 1920 - Jun 18, 2006) Wowk, Sadie (Jul 12, 1920 - Aug 25, 2005) Wowk, Rosalia (Dec 24, 1917 - Nov 18, 2009) Wowk, Gary (Nov 8, 1949 - Oct 29, 2003) Wowk, Josephine (Mar 2, 1894 - Dec 1968) Wowk, Jane (Sep 4, 1929 - Oct 25, 1996) Wowk, Jacob (Dec 25, 1889 - Dec 1982) Wowk, Michael (Oct 22, 1922 - Feb 3, 1992) Wowk, Edna (Dec 2, 1927 - Dec 1991)
Wowk, Walter (Jul 4, 1923 - Mar 3, 2007) Wowk, Michael (Jun 7, 1913 - Jan 2, 1991) Wowk, James (Apr 1, 1951 - Dec 11, 2000) Wowk, Laura (Apr 27, 1908 - Dec 1980) Wowk, Jane (Feb 23, 1924 - Dec 15, 2008) Wowk, John (Apr 21, 1927 - Mar 11, 2005) Wowk, Thomas (Dec 8, 1917 - Jan 22, 1997) Wowk, Ewhenij (Mar 25, 1912 - Apr 23, 1997) Wowk, Winifred (Nov 7, 1921 - Dec 27, 1988) Wowk, Olga (May 24, 1893 - May 1975)
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