Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most important new project of Joseph Stalin, who already has the world's largest army (1,300,000 men who serve without pay but get their board and keep), is to have Soviet workers put together in Russia a first-class Red Navy out of parts made abroad. This incipient "Assembled Navy," the first in world history, is now in the hush-hush stage, but last week the U. S. State Department announced that the U. S. S. R. has suddenly become the largest customer for U. S. war materials, and that last month the first shipment of disassembled...
Enrolled as a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., was Ann Rutledge, 18, daughter of Donald Rutledge of Ottumwa, Iowa, a nephew of the Ann Rutledge who was Abraham Lincoln's tragic, youthful love. She was working in a WPA theatre project in Chicago when she was introduced to the president of Lincoln Memorial, was persuaded to enter...
...drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch of the old Boulevard across the Chicago River, which still clotted at each change of a traffic light...
...side outer drives. What Franklin Roosevelt, his head filled with international affairs, had to say about the span he said in 29 vague words: "My friends, I am glad to come again to Chicago and especially to have the opportunity of taking part in the dedication of this important project of civic betterment...
Featuring a program by a group of composers associated with the University, the Composers' Forum Laboratory of the Federal Music Project will reopen in the lecture hall of the Boston Public Library this evening...