Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quorum shall consist of a majority of the members of the Council. A vote of the Council shall be declared if two thirds of those voting favor the project. If there is less than a majority of those in favor of the motion, the motion is laid on the table. If there is a favorable majority which does not reach the requisite two thirds, a week shall elapse, at the end of which time a majority vote shall decide...
With the War Department Appropriation bill before the Senate, Florida's Fletcher proposed an amendment to appropriate $12,000,000 to carry on the Florida canal's construction. The House had refused funds for this project, as had the Senate Appropriations Committee. But to Senator Fletcher it was a matter of political life & death. Michigan's Senator Vandenberg, who alone has vigorously opposed the canal, promptly took the floor, recapitulated the arguments against it: The Army's Board of Rivers & Harbors Engineers, which always passes on such projects, had refused its approval. Secretary Ickes' Public...
...exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
Significance. The releasing in London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead...
...Caltech was granted $6,000,000 of Rockefeller money for the telescope, with the stipulation that full opportunity to cooperate be given to Carnegie Institution's men at Mt. Wilson Observatory. The committee in charge of the project is headed by Mt. Wilson's venerable George Ellery Hale, famed solar authority. The first 200-in. mirror was marred during the casting when cores broke loose from the floor of the mold and floated to the top of the molten glass (TIME, April 2, 1934). Rather than grind out the huge pockmarks in the mirror's back...