Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected, the court accepted the wording of the TVA Act and the testimony of TVA experts as proof that the TVA is an all-round waterway development project. The judges then proceeded to inspect TVA's record as a utility business. Since 1934 TVA has made a total net income of $2,087,497 by selling power to 17 municipalities and 15 co-operatives in four States-Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Many localities have been helped to buy or build their distributing systems by PWA loans-and-grants of which up to 45% may be outright gifts. This...
...Some earlier editions of the Living Newspaper were Power, on the Tennessee Valley project; and Triple-A Plowed Under, on the Agricultural Adjustment...
...mother has mellowed some since her rapturous and highly-opinionated youth, and so she is opposed to the project. But she is embarrassed into inglorious submission when the daughter reads her a poetic account of the mother's life of some twenty years ago with an enthusiastic young Communist. It appears that the girl has been writing a thesis in college on the contribution of Greenwich Village to freedom in American literature and morals, and incidentally delving into her mother's racy past. The latter soon has company in her embarrassment, however, because the partner of her ecstatic adventure...
Exhibit B is a project called "Broadacre City" which Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship worked out in a 12-ft. model when they all went to Arizona three winters ago. Broadacre City is Wright's answer to urbanization. He believes some-thing like it is already happening in the movement of people out of cities through suburbs to the open country. Its fulfillment would complete this process, giving every citizen his modicum acre of land in communities spread out along the transportation routes. Frank Lloyd Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere...
...music of great countries. These musical lectures, designed particularly for juvenile entertainment, kept Maier busy both in the delivery of them, and in gleaning new material for them. With the advent of Government sponsored music, Maier was appointed an assistant to the National Director of the Federal Music Project, a post which he now holds