Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...
When New York City's division of the WPA Federal Theatre Project, with three major shows and a circus playing to capacity, continued to show comparatively little money in its till, WPA's sleuths went to work. Last week they announced a shortage of $600 in one theatre, $300 in another. The investigators suspected that much more money had been pilfered by ticket takers and sellers who connived to sell the same tickets more than once, thus avoid discrepancies in their records. Shocked, WPA decided henceforth to have periodical audits...
Recently, the bosses of a WPA project to provide San Francisco with an aquatic park were first puzzled, then incredulous, finally fascinated by the strange behavior of the men working for them. The WPA laborers were really swinging their picks, digging in with their shovels, working unasked during their lunch hour and overtime at night. Last week, after the flurry of activity was over, the story of it was finally told. In the rubble where they were digging, one of the men turned up a $20 gold piece. Another found a diamond stud. Coins, baubles, silverware were discovered...
...years ago, when the Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some...
About 25 men have already put in their orders, but 100 must order the second copies before the committee can break even on the project. In spite of all the extra trouble involved, they are interested in making history...