Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...
...Hotel Astor, partly in anticipation of fair-increased business, spent $1,500,000 on new elevators, air conditioning, etc. Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...
...were signed for one year, but it is no secret that this Greatest Show on Earth will probably run a second season. If admissions reach the estimated minimum of 40,000,000 (most people are expected to make at least three visits to the fair), Mr. Whalen's project will lose $3,941,445. If 50,000,000 attend, there should be a surplus of $1,024,158. If it is a two-year fair with 40,000,000 the first year, 24,000,000 the second, the surplus will rise to $8,269,555. Any loss will...
THESE ARE OUR LIVES-Federal Writers' Project-University of North Carolina Press...
...months ago W. T. Couch, regional director of the Federal Writers' Project, sent his best writers out to get the life stories of a typical cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything...