Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Haldane, ex-Secretary of State for War, and Viscount Grey, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, criticized the Government's project for a naval base at Singapore. Lord Haldane wanted to know the nation against which the Government felt bound to prepare defense.' The Marquis of Salisbury, replying, said that it was quite easy for the noble Lord to ask such a question, but difficult to answer discreetly...
...party's following stop was at Spokane. There the President was taken on an automobile trip by the Governor and the state's two Senators and shown motion pictures of the region, the reason being that Washingtonians desire the Federal Government to undertake an irrigation project there, costing about $250,000,000. That evening at Spokane, Mr. Harding delivered an address on "unlocking the treasure house of our national resources." Without committing himself to the Columbia Basin plan, he advocated a gradual development of national resources...
...President was treated to a pageant in honor of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Trail. Oregon would like the Federal Government to make the Trail a great highway. The state has also a $50,-000,000 irrigation plan for the Government, known as the Umadillo project...
...Northern Sakhalin is sold to Japan, Sinclair's much-discussed oil concession there will of course be worthless. The whole episode would furnish a worthy theme for a novel by Oppenheim. Sinclair's attempted penetration of the Russian oil fields follows the development project undertaken in the Baker petroleum district by the Barnsdall Corporation, another American company...
Contracts have been signed for the construction of the world's greatest indoor arena just above the Manhattan theatre district (at 51st St. and Seventh Ave.). John Ringling, circus man; Tex Rickard, greatest of athletic promoters; E. F. Albee, czar of vaudeville, are behind the project. The building will include at least two theatres beside the arena, and will seat untold thousands. In the summertime the tan l ark will evolve into a swimming pool than which " only the ocean is larger." The announcement spells death to historic Madison Square Garden, for years home of circus, bike race, title bout...