Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt announced that the canal would be started at once even Florida gaped with astonishment. Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity. Those who knew anything about the surveys understood that all the official reports made on the canal had been adverse; that the canal would cost $200,000,000 or more; that with interest at even 2% on the investment, the waterway would never pay for itself; that with no interest, tolls would pay for the investment only after about...
Most valuable of Hills & Youngberg's contributions to the canal cause was Engineer George B. Hills himself, who also happened to be the New Deal's dispenser of patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...
Meanwhile the Senate Commerce Committee started to consider investigating the whole project. Senator Fletcher was doing his best to preserve the canal's good name while Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was producing considerable damaging evidence against...
...Since the prime tenet of Progressive Education is to let pupils study what they want to study, Willard Beatty seemed well fitted for his job. In reservation schools Director Beatty will encourage the study of Indian arts, customs and languages, in addition to "pale face learning." The typically Progressive "project system" of education will be applied chiefly to the molding of pottery and weaving of blankets, tourist trades in which Indians are protected by a Federal law that only goods actually manufactured by Indians can be labeled 'Indian...
...belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but wholly without the means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity...