Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, President Roosevelt urged revival of two pet projects: 1) The projected $200,000,000 Florida Ship Canal (on which $5,400,000 of WPA money was spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine...
Among the directors of the project, which will be known as the "Bear Camp Tramway," are Gov. Francis P. Murphy, Sen. H. Styles Bridges, and Attorney Charles M. Dale, president, a member of the Governor's Council...
WEST OSSIPEE, N. H. (U.P.) New England winter sports fans will have facilities comparable to the famous Alpine centers upon completion of a project on Mount Nickerson...
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They reached Cocos. Only vestiges of life on the barren island were so many picks and shovels left by previous treasure hunters, that "it looked like an abandoned WPA project." With Countess di Frasso offering suggestions, the crew "dug hell out of that island," but they found only rocks. Bello did not mind; they would go fishing, he said...