Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though many authorities question the project's profitableness, New York City expects to make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse will run to $150,000, half again as much revenue as the Hylan piers have yielded in late years. That no eager freighters plowed past the vigilant electric eyes last week was due, according to Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, to the fact that foreign shippers were not yet used...
...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
...interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about $158,000,000 and completing the program launched in 1928 by the late William Wallace Atterbury...
...British Board of Trade, arrived with his wife to spend the week-end-quite unofficially-at the White House. These last three events were enough to cost Franklin Roosevelt a full week's cogitation. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act has been the New Deal's biggest project in foreign affairs: to break down the forces that make peace impossible, that tend to starve nations to the point of fighting. Neutrality legislation bears on the same point, how to keep out of the fighting once it starts. Since the Trade Agreements Act expires June 12-and the present Neutrality...
...records of the textiles, which here include embroideries, are certainly impressive. Perhaps no other art will disclose such possibilities for comparative study when all regions are ultimately brought into the national portfolios. In the textiles, the workmanship of the project artists is amazing. The colors are rich yet they achieve the softness of the wool, the folds and the textures create an almost complete illusion...