Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Payoff. The twelve girls of the Cuautla Service Unit sign up for six to eight months, pay $35 a month for their board. They live in an unused patio of a public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...
Keep in Balance. Paepcke invited such friends as United Air Lines's William A. Patterson, Hilton Hotels' Connie Hilton, Palmer House Manager Joseph Binns to invest in the project, up to $5,000. But most of the bills, more than $1,000,000 so far, were paid by Paepcke. During the first week of business, the gross return on this investment was about $2,500 a day (hotel rates ran from $4 to $14 without meals). With 25 lakes and 1,000 miles of trout streams within a 20-mile radius, Aspen should do equally well during...
...contests will be open to all residents of the Houses, Beren added, emphasizing that the whole project was "an attempt to foster student interest in debating." No members of the Debate council will be allowed to participate, although they may act as chairmen of the discussions. Judges will usually be residents of the two Houses competing...
Minnesota's beefy Harold Knutson then introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
...said that at the present time only half of the 386-unit Harvardevens Village project was filled, with virtually all of the FPHA-sponsored conversion work completed. After next term, he estimated, about 100 family spaces will not be occupied by Harvard students...