Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 400 members of Parliament, in favor of the project, were pressing for debate of the subject in the Commons and there was a general feeling abroad that the Imperial Defence Committee was not to be allowed to kill the scheme...
Although the existence of the tunnel would cut the cost of transportation to and from the Continent, and reduce the time taken to travel the distance between London and Paris, critics of the project averred...
...plan for a Pan-American railroad is not new. Yet the appointment of a committee composed of representatives of South, Central and North American countries, at their joint meetings held in the Pan-American Union Building in Washington, have lent renewed interest to a project often dreamed of. The desire is to provide through railroad facilities from Manhattan to Buenos Aires-a distance of about 10,000 miles. About 7,000 miles of the route is already built, including the line from Manhattan to Guatemala. Most of the existing gaps which must be filled to complete the route...
...watt in a 100-watt lamp actually illuminates," the inventor explained, "the others merely give off heat." Yet it is possible, he believes, to build a 10,000-candle-power lamp that will give off no heat at all. Such a"frozen light" could be used cheaply to project cinemas...
...Discussion of a project to limit expenditure on armaments...