Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent to the Calais authorities. His plan calls for the building of two double-deck piers, each 261/4 miles long, from France to England. Between the two piers is to be a canal 300 metres wide to enable fast ships to cross in smooth water. The cost of the project was estimated at about...
...this point, several Rumanians and Germans offered to sell for $3,500 to Superintendent Dunlap a sure scheme to extinguish the fire. Their proposal was looked into, rejected. The next scheme tried was digging a tunnel up to the wall with the idea of dynamiting it. The project was stopped by irate Rumani who demanded huge payments for permission to use their property as a right...
...rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) boiled no more within him, that he was now about to throw all his energies, his visions, his genius into a great project in-"North Carolina?" queried the reporter. "No, South Dakota," replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. "Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy," suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State, the Great Commoner requested...
...Liggett is an able, self-made man. At 14 he was working for a firm of dry-goods brokers. At 27 he was selling a line of druggists' goods. Conceiving the idea of cooperative buying and manufacturing, he induced 40 druggists to put $4,000 each in the project. At 50 he is head of the United Drug Co., doing a business of almost $1,000,000 a week with a group of 8,000 privately owned stores in the U. S., Canada, England and elsewhere, and with 190 stores owned outright by the Liggett companies...
...other State, whether a member of the League or not. It shall be the duty of the Executive Council in such case to recommend what effective military or naval or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to project the covenants of the League. The high contracting parties agree further that . . . they will afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the high contracting parties who are cooperating to protect the covenants of the League...