Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the Geological Survey, a board of Army, engineers, a W.P.A. committee had any use whatsoever for the project. Even the abject House, for once, baulked at initialing the plan. The most ringing denunciation came from the Senate, where Senator Vandenburg introduced masses of damaging testimony, demanded and received the support of his colleagues in casting out the measure implementing the project, which had already been started by presidential fiat...
...large sum, whether the money is for a presidential whim or not. The canal, indeed, is not even partially self-liquidating, for no tolls will be charged. It is a very notable fact even the ship-owners--the supposed beneficiaries--register a complete lack of enthusiasm for the project. Objections by the Geological Survey, raised in connection with the canal's probable effect upon the water table which makes Southern Florida a fruit-growing paradise, are suddenly and without adequate explanation ruled out of order...
...motivating force behind the sudden revival of a program long fancied by Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed, the whole conduct of the affair smacks too much of a spoiled child deprived of a cherished plaything. Unquestionably the people have given the President a large, if ill-defined mandate, but this project was certainly anything but an integral part of it. Not once but several times it was shown to be contrary to the will of the people, their representatives, the press, the shipowners themselves, and a large and thoroughly competent body of experts...
Leverett House recently inaugurated a deck tennis court on the flat roof of the Dining Room. Work on the project has been in progress for some time; with its completion last week, Leverett became the possessor of the only deck tennis court in the College...
...Chicago Dr. Slye tartly said she could not be bothered with Dr. Little's project simply because "the non-tumor strains with which this preliminary work was done, and which I expanded for this experiment, are now no longer in existence...