Word: projection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if they would ever again attempt flying to the Pole in heavier-than-air machines, Amundsen and Ellsworth said: "No." Asked if they were interested in the project of Herr Hugo Eckener of trying for the Pole in a super-zeppelin, said they: "Yes, in-deed!" Said Ellsworth, whose recent trip was his first polar experience: "I have only just begun . . . Any project for a polar flight by dirigible should plan its route for a flight clear across the Pole, terminating in Japan...
...cannot give you the exact figures," said the Finance Minister in high delight, "but I admit, if you wish, that the difference in favor of the bonds amounts to close to 100,000,000 francs. If I have been reproached with being too daring, my project's first results would seem to indicate that I took the right course and that, as I like to repeat, daring creates confidence. It is evident people with money to invest are eager to put themselves in condition to subscribe to the loan...
...Socialists put in a determined plea for the pet project of capital levy. After considerable discussion a Socialist amendment supporting the levy was defeated 340 to 210. A vote was then taken on M. Caillaux's bill as a whole and was passed 330 to 40 votes, the Socialists abstaining...
...This project is a liquidation of the past. No other Government in our place could do otherwise. We are in the presence of peril. I do not like inflation any more than you do, but I felt when the first 4,000,000,000 francs of additional issue were authorized a few months ago we should then have made the amount...
Dean James E. Lough of New York University, the project's father, hopes to make the cruise an annual affair productive of "antidotes to Bryanism" in business men and politicians of the next decade...