Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayer last February abandoned its film version of It Can't Happen Here, a best-selling novel of 1935 in which Sinclair Lewis showed how a Fascist dictatorship might come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties of $50 per week for each theatre in which the play...
...French steamship Pireire. At his first glimpse of New York harbor-so he always maintained-he immediately conceived the idea for a gigantic statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," picked Bedloe Island with its abandoned ramparts of Fort Wood as the ideal site. Ashore, he talked hard about his project to various rich citizens, went down to Long Branch, N. J. to see President Grant about...
Sculptor Bartholdi quickly produced a number of sketches for his monument (now on exhibit among other Liberty documents at the Museum of the City of New York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
Another smart U. P. merchandising move, like its streamline trains, special coach service and cheap dining-car meals, Sun Valley is Averell Harriman's pet project. He took his wife, daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs ("Eddy") Duchin and Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting's president, on an inspection tour with Count Schaffgotsch last winter. The Count will provide a platoon of Austrian ski teachers for the resort...
...languished since its students marched off to the Civil War. Dr. Jacobs runs a strictly non-communist institution. Last week, in an article published by Scientific American. Dr. Jacobs revealed' that Oglethorpe is ready to go ahead with an ambitious, scientific, costly and carefully planned conservation project for the benefit of archeologists in the year 8113 A. D. This particular date was chosen. Dr. Jacobs said, because the first recorded date in history is 4241 B. C., in which year the Egyptian calendar was established. Since that date 6,177 years have passed. Adding 6,177 years...