Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...
...last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed in the history of Congress," it requires payment of land and damage costs by States or localities, approval of every project by the War Department's tough-minded Board of Engineers for Rivers & Harbors...
...Chief Julian Deryl Hart last week braced himself to answer a barrage of questions excited by a report in Modern Hospital concerning novel use of ultraviolet light as an antiseptic agent in operating rooms. Over his operating table Dr. Hart had rigged a grid of light tubes which project an invisible light which within five minutes effectively kills almost all germs within a radius of five feet...
...LAST SURPLUS GOES TO SMITHSONIAN," read a streamer headline. "Weather: Friday, probably followed by Saturday." Lead story concerned a Federal resettlement project. "Twelve hundred inhabitants of Alaska's Yukon Valley, discouraged by the failure of gold mines in the vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond...
Grant for the project is one of three, totalling $2,000, made public today by the Committee. During the present year $90,000 have been allotted Faculty members by the committee from funds given by the Rockefelley Foundation in the fields of history, government, economics, and sociology...