Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolrd then goes on to say that the sums of money spent on athletic contests and their incident banquets are so large that the scheme ought to present no financial difficulties. A Harvard undergraduate writer of the time asks why the project might not be carried out, and baseball and boating still continue as before...
Plans to put the project into immediate effect were arranged. Dr. W. S. Cook '11 will lead the work as Research Fellow of the College Art Association. Dr. Cook is a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts of New York University and formerly taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard. He has spent much of the last few years abroad and has done a great deal of research work in Spanish art, about which he has published several volumes...
...lower the lake levels ruinously. Even Canada has glowered. They have accused Chicago of having lowered the levels ruinously already with her sewage disposal canal and added insult to injury by declaring that Chicago sewage pollutes the entire Great Lakes system (excepting Lake Superior). Lately, with the Chicago-Gulf project pending in the Senate, the Chicago Tribune, has served its public by returning the insult, showing that Detroit "spews," that Toledo "defiles," that Cleveland pollutes and lies about it, that Erie, Buffalo and Toronto foster typhoid...
Shrewd Illinois congressmen, chiefly Representative Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from...
Already the Firestones have been working their plantation for over a year under a tentative agreement (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) with the Liberian Government. Young Harvey Firestone Jr. (Princeton '20) has largely engineered the groundwork of this vast project. Recently he surveyed the Philippines for further rubber possibilities, told President Coolidge at White Pine Camp (TIME, Aug. 16) that "in 15 years the United States could become independent of the British Rubber monopoly" if Philippine land laws are modified to encourage U. S. investments there...