Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed by the House. One of them, as a safeguard against possible unconstitutionality of WPA, shifted control of the relief fund from WPAdministrator Hopkins to President Roosevelt. Another, aimed at preventing any more such huge false starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this amendment was read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment to it. He proposed that the President be empowered to appoint engineering...
...wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked for $1,000.000 more to carry...
...conference quickly decided not to scrap the 60,000,000 seedlings, but not to go to the expense of planting them. Instead they should be reared to planting age, given as presents to farmers. For this purpose $170,000 was appropriated to wind up the whole tree-strip project on the cheap...
Stephen Fuller Austin was a wiry little Missouri trader and politician who went down to Texas in 1821 to found, at San Felipe, the first permanent Anglo-American settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey is getting started this year on an undersea mapping project which will require three to six years, from the Delaware Capes to Nantucket. Assisting the Oceanographer are three small vessels: the Lydonia, which is doing inshore work in water as shallow as five fathoms; and the Gilbert and Welker, which serve as station ships to keep the Oceanographer constantly able to find its position within a quarter-mile. This is done by discharging TNT bombs from the mapping ship; the sound is picked up by hydrophones on the two station ships and automatically sent back by radio...