Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity. In fact, its bulldog tenacity and unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding...
...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
...skilled workers were now needed to do the work that one had done before. Result: many a project is stalled, many an unskilled worker is left idle by a shortage of skilled labor. From the U.S.S. Houston last fortnight, Presidential Guest Hopkins abolished the rule requiring 90% of workers on PWA projects to be drawn from relief rolls. In New York City, needing 12,000 skilled workers, WPA officials planned to call in non-relief workmen if the shortage was not quickly supplied by volunteers from home relief...
...five hundred Harvard Alumni from all classes since 1910 have been sent questiounaires in an effort to determine the mortality of the vocational plans among Juniors and Seniors in Harvard College. This dats is being gathered by Phillip J. Rulon, Professor of Education, as part of an independent study project on which he has been working for over eight months, the results of which he hopes to publish by next spring...
...tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing only a millionth part of Boulder Dam, is an undesirable project or a waste of money? Can we say that the great brick high school, costing $2,000,000 is a useful expenditure but that a little wooden school house project, costing $10,000, is a wasteful extravagance...