Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning he was up & around again as a man of affairs. With his house guest, Harry Hopkins, he talked over the future of the nearby Passamaquoddy tidal power project, now that Congress has definitely refused to authorize funds for its completion. Then, with his family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake...
...convivial state he held his first press conference in nearly three weeks, devoted it chiefly to expounding the desirability of the 'Quoddy project, based on his expectation of a 10% to 15% annual growth in electric power demand, new methods of transmission that would take 'Quoddy's output to areas where it could be used. That duty done, he settled back to watch his boys play baseball on the sand, a game which ended with members of the New Brunswick Cabinet taking on an all-U. S. team. Driving home as the fog began to roll...
...that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made if the President has his way with Congress...
...session was called because the Kansas Constitution puts responsibility for public charity on counties, whereas the Federal Social Security Act requires administration by States. In a five-minute message Governor Landon pointed to Republican platform proposals for revising the New Deal social security system, asked the Legislature to project amendments broad enough to permit the State to cooperate in any system which "may ultimately become the settled law upon this question." This the Republican-controlled Legislature promptly...
...size or character of these structures which gives this project its distinctive character. It is outstanding as a modern traffic artery through a great metropolis, planned to combine speed and safety as well as a form of recreation to the traveling public to an extent not equaled in any similar project...