Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vain were the efforts of Senators Hale and Maloney to forbid the use of PWA money to build plants competing with private industry (see p. 59), equally vain Senators' attempts to earmark money, for rivers & harbors, flood control, or PWA projects already approved. The President in a letter to Colorado's Adams, used the magic word "Emergency!" The money must be spent quickly, he said, to bridge the summer gap before private industry can begin adding to its payrolls in the winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months...
...half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes and machines, build bookcases, boats. Symptomatic also of the change in Eton is the fact that in their-weekly one-hour drawing period boys today may draw railway engines if they like, instead of the conventional pair of oranges and a banana...
...training program at Cove Creek can be begun, even though we have not a completed plan. This will require a number of men and we should begin to build that staff...
...broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing 60, he learned to fly a seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale...
...years ago, when the Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some...