Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Machines. "You have charge of Project 89?" the examiner asked Dr. Irving Lorge, bespectacled, self-assured young psychological researcher at Columbia University's Teachers College...
...sponsor of Project 89-fb 125x," replied Dr. Lorge. "Commonly known as Project...
Precise Dr. Lorge proceeded to explain that Project 89-fb 125x, which has already cost $160,000 and will cost another $160,000 before it is finished, comprised three phases. One was a study of semantics, in which relief workers were engaged in counting some 2,500,000 words to determine their frequency and that of their various shades of meaning. Another group was experimenting with a bicycle ergometer, described as "a machine used for measuring the cost of physical work in terms of metabolism used in psychological experimentation." The third group made its living on a "learning machine." That...
Real Estate. Project 33 and Project 276 got the committee's special attention. Project 276, which employed 350 men at a cost of $318,000, was a real estate survey of New York City. Project 33, which simultaneously employed 1,200 men at a cost of nearly $2,000,000, was also a real estate survey of New York City. To the committee it looked as if the workers on the two projects had simply been retracing each other's steps. A deputy tax commissioner testified that for 30 years private firms had been supplying his department with...
...word, the same man announced that he was going to help "break the logjam that has for five years confronted the durable goods and heavy industries." And, what was more, the Roosevelt Administration was going to help him do it. For had he not just put over a project which,' with the exception of those partly financed by Federal funds, was five times bigger than the Federal Housing Administration ever dreamed of approving...