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Word: projected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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