Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charmed by a Maxwell column, six weeks before the date, which remarked: "It is hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want to come...
...Lambeth Conference had made the proposal in 1920: that the Church of England and Britain's Nonconformist churches enter into "full communion" as the first step toward a church united. For more than a quarter century thereafter the project gathered dust in ecclesiastical archives. But this week, in a sermon at the University of Cambridge, the Most Rev. and Right Honorable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, forcibly reminded British Christians that the idea was not dead. Excerpts...
...when WAA was trying to sell 48 other surplus plants in the Chicago area. Furthermore, Tucker's President, Preston Tucker, already had 165 men at work on a pilot model. Altogether, said Tucker, he had put $1.3 million of his own and his relatives' money into the project. He protested that to move now would be calamitous...
...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
...present, with the project still in the "planning stage," nothing is known of plans other than the fact that the Company has under consideration the plot of ground bounded by Mount Auburn Street, Putnam and Western Avenues, and Memorial Drive...