Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Businessmen, architects and contractors on whom Ickes investigators were turned loose to try to detect graft in every PWA project...
...have already stated, it is only because of the current emergency of unemployment and because of the physical impossibility of surveying, weighing and testing each and every project that a segregation of items is clearly impossible at the moment...
...managers, who had counted at first on average-size families, suddenly decided to give preference to oversize ones. Another story is that Mrs. Roosevelt, who has made frequent visits to Reedsville, took a look at the little square cabins and decided they were not good enough for her pet project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only $15 wood-burning stoves for heat, were obviously unsuited to the region's sub-zero winters. Whatever the reason, ten architects and draftsmen were brought from New York and under their direction workmen began...
...June 1934, 50 houses were almost or entirely finished. One was occupied. Out of its $25,000,000 Subsistence Homestead fund the Interior Department had spent on the project $437,645-not including about $140,000 worth of work by CWA, CCC and FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
Proud of their tractors and power plants, Russians are even more proud of their schools. Their claims are that illiteracy has all but vanished; that there is education for everyone, from three-year-olds up to the oldest peasants; that Soviet educators have pioneered in developing group project work; that education is grounded on machines...