Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making jobs without materials last week challenged all New Deal project-makers. Mr. Ickes figured that if he could get cities and states to put up 55% of the cost of public works he could get his costs down to $959-but most cities and states are too hard pressed to leap at the chance. The President said nothing, but Washington was certain that the bulk of the $4,000,000,000 was going eventually to drop into the lap of Harry Hopkins. He alone needs little stone or steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll...
Nevertheless, the Union Bag project last week received the blessing of the Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry & Science, a group organized last spring to promote the use of farm products in industry and now functioning as the Farm Chemurgic Council (TIME, May 20). The Council carefully called the public's attention to the works of Chemist Charles Holmes Herty, who has long dreamed of transferring the newsprint industry from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State...
Under this rule most U. S. Medicine is practiced out of sight and sound of the rest of the country, and brave or foolhardy is the doctor who dares to speak out to the laity on a particular medical or surgical case, a disease or treatment, a research project. As a result Medicine, by & large, has the worst press relations of any U. S. profession...
Wanted: Roses. Terming the Tennessee Valley Authority a "monstrous" project and President Roosevelt's utility ideas "an obsession," the hulking head of Public Service of New Jersey continued: "Since the present national Administration was inducted . . . there has been launched by it against this industry the most devastating and destructive attack, having for its object the end of private operation of the electric industry and its nationalization under Federal direction and ultimate ownership...
Secretary Wallace has devoted himself to carrying out a project which many people believe to be basically wrong, the AAA. Nevertheless, he has brought such ability, courage, and sincerity to his post that few people deny him their respect and admiration...