Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure to have the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer project operated by the U. S. ¶ Passed the bill urged by Col. Lindbergh (opposed by Assistant Secretary of War Davison) to put Air Corps officers on a promotion list separate from other Army officers; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed a bill raising the Army rank of Dr. James F. Coupal...
...plan concerns itself with the manufacture of nitrates, an obsolete process, which now holds little value. Another interests itself with the profits obtainable through the utilization of the water power project, but omits the consideration of public interest which is incorporated in the Norris plan passed by the Senate some time ago. In it Senator Norris proposed not only that the government market the power of Muscle Shoals, but that it also devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. The dual project of the Norris plan is sound, but it has more than this to recommend...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
Program. As a prelude to his project, Chancellor Churchill drew attention to the undoubted fact that Great Britain's productive industries & farmlands are now crushingly burdened by "the rates," that is by taxes locally imposed. These local burdens upon production, said Mr. Churchill, must hereafter be borne by the country as a whole, and especially by firms engaged in distribution, such as the oil companies...
...terrified and superstitious population touched the apogee of panic, last week, when a rumor spread that Divine Vengeance had fallen because of a specific and impious act of the Bulgarian Parliament. This act was to meet and discuss the project of a U. S. loan on a Holy Day, namely last Good Friday...