Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally told Congress the building would cost $250.000. So far, after several changes of plan, it has cost $544,000. Per cubic foot it cost 43½?, compared to 20? per cubic foot for the nearby Federal Building. Of 1,049 workers on the project's pay roll, only 17.7% were Reliefers; the balance was high-paid labor...
...national director of the Writers' Project was accused by one of his erstwhile supervisors of inspiring a sit-down strike in which some 200 literary WPA-sters seized and held the writers' headquarters in Manhattan...
...Theatre Project, it had spent $1,468,365 producing 27 plays, many of them flops. Congressman Taber of New York called "putrid" a bit in Sing For Your Supper where an old man appears and sings, "I don't wanna be intellectual. I wanna be sexual...
...entire committee goggled at a book compiled by the Arts Project, a catalogue of female models available to its workers. It contained page after page of women's photographs. Negroes and Whites, most of them nudes...
...from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt which leads a worthless and dusty existence in the middle of a blustering and pretentious museum. A museum is a noble project but instead of hosing art, it has upon its walls well-framed pieces of colored canvas, used primarily for research and study. A work of art is not simply a work of art in and by itself. It is not something to be started at by the members at a Ladies...