The first Texas bookmobile, in 1930, carried about 1,400 volumes; the New Deal WPA project provided another thirty-three bookmobiles. … Ironically, it was Cold War anxieties of Soviet technological superiority that spurred a concerted effort to improve library provision in rural areas through the Library Services Act of 1956.

Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile Hist…, loc. 831