Word: projected
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While it is true that Hood made the original design for the Tribune Tower, Howells rendered invaluable service in connection with the project. It is not true that the design was submitted from the office of John Mead Howells. The design was submitted in the name of John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood, associate architects. It is not true that Hood had to turn over $40,000 of the prize money to Howells. The arrangement was for an equal division...
Four days later Mr. Sloan had an even bigger project afoot. One of the better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft...
...would exempt from taxation all homes and ranches assessed at less than $3,000 and make it up on the holders of more valuable property. His inheritance tax would take 50% of any personal bequest over $50,000, 50% of any estate over $250,000. But his greatest project was for the unemployed. He would have the State rent or buy land and inactive factories, establish colonies of unemployed, feed, clothe and house them with the products of one another's labor until they became so happy that all other Californias envied them...
...magazine promotion, it had little to say about Collier's, devoted itself almost exclusively to simple charts of Congressional votes, arranged by states, on 22 prime measures ranging from the Emergency Banking Act (March 1933) to the Labor Dispute Act (June 1934). Collier's staff began the project two months ago, only to discover that the ground had already been ably covered by Congressional Intelligence, Inc, a Washington reporting agency in the latter's volume, Factual History of the Roosevelt Regime. Since the volume went to only a limited number of $10 subscribers, Collier's felt...
Meanwhile, the project of planting a $75,000,000 belt of trees as a means of land reclamation was last week running into considerable ridicule. Near broiling Manhattan, Kans. a farmer drawled to an out-of-town newshawk: "Have you ever been to those small western Kansas county seat towns? If you have you may have noticed the trees about the public buildings. They have been trying for 20 years to raise trees in prepared soil and right now they have not got them much more than ten feet high...