Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost, tax-free, housing project begun under governmental aegis...
Meanwhile another great New Deal construction project crashed into the headlines last week involving money, water, beets, beauty, politics and the Continental Divide...
Last week the $140,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, which southern Floridians claim will make the lower half of that State an arid waste, was back in the Washington news when it was discovered that President Roosevelt is apparently determined to push this project despite the House's refusal to appropriate money for it (TIME, Feb. 17). The President started this Atlantic-to-Gulf waterway with five million relief dollars, allotted $200,000 more when that ran out. Last month the House declined to appropriate $12,000,000 to keep the work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress...
...McCrea was succeeded by Samuel Rea, who had been the active supervisor on the tunnel job. His administration extended through the completion of the Hell Gate project, the building of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the War years, and the beginning of the 1920's. These were prosperous years for the Pennsylvania, which ran its gross income from...
...sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income $8.33 higher than did Dr. Townsend, but he proposed it as the minimum income, not for oldsters alone but for every family...