Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Music Project has quietly but also effectively been presenting several interesting series of concerts which, although not always of high technical standards, show a good deal of ingenuity and discrimination. Recently, Sunday evening concerts in the unfortunate Majestic theatre have presented the Beethoven symphonies, and a Composers' Forum Laboratory has been held weekly on Thursdays. This evening at 25 Huntington Avenue, Harry Seaver '33 will discuss some of his works at this Laboratory as well as hear them played. The experiment has interesting possibilities, and merits attention...
Riding the crest of his legislative popularity last week, Mr. Lapointe proposed to go the League Against War & Fascism one better by founding a League of All Canadian Citizens to Fight Communism, Fascism and All Other Subversive Movements. As the parliamentary overture to this project, Minister of Justice Lapointe keynoted in the House of Commons: "I am a strong believer in the British way of administering justice. I believe in the majesty and equality of the law and I believe Canadian citizens of all classes who believe in peace and order should join hands with a view to the preservation...
...sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...
Boulder Dam on the Colorado River is the world's biggest dam, but the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long...
...from San Francisco climbed a brand new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat named the Pan American Clipper after the sister ship which made the tests on the central Pacific service. In command as always when Pan American starts a new project was its taciturn senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem...