Word: projections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
South Carolina's private utility companies, already equipped to generate far more power than their area could buy, fought the Santee-Cooper project in court & out. They lost. Traditionalists argued that some of South Carolina's most historic spots would go under water. They were ignored. Naturalists deplored upsetting Nature's balance by making fresh the brackish waters of the Cooper basin, teeming with life from shellfish to wild geese. For so protesting, Archibald Rutledge was censured by the State Senate, but the lower house saved him his honorary title of State Poet Laureate...
...houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...
Life and Death of an American (by George Sklar; produced by the Federal Theatre Project) tells the story of Jerry Dorgan, supposedly the first U. S. baby born in 1900. The play spans the same period and dramatizes many of the same events as The American Way; but Jerry is a worker's son and his story is no paean to the democratic formula. An indignant protest against a system which creates and cannot, cope with poverty and unemployment, it ends bitterly with Jerry killed during a strike...
...Washington Rep. Dewey Short (Missouri, R.), squawked that the Federal Theatre Project produced plays with "suggestive or salacious" titles, cited as samples of "vulgar and villainous activities which the people of the U. S. must be taxed for" : The Bishop Misbehaves, Companion-mate Maggie, Just a Love Nest, The King and the Chorus Girl, Lend Me Your Husband, Old Captain Romeo's Four Wives, Up in Mabel's Room...