Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans & Frills. President Roosevelt talked about a Missouri Valley project like TVA. Power companies fought that idea. So did many a farmer who thought of socialism and decided he preferred the uncertainties of the river. Then along came Brigadier General (then Colonel) Lewis Pick of the Corps of Engineers; he had a plan without sociological frills. But before it could be worked out, Engineer Pick was sent to Burma to build "Pick's Pike"-the Ledo Road...
...TRANSPORT. Labor plans to weld railways, trucking canals, docks & harbors (but not shipping) into a unit under a national transport board by next year. Rail and road haulage comapnies have already launched a "fight-to-finish" propaganda barrage against the project...
Pestalozzi Village is the dream of Walter Robert Cord, 36, an ailing, angular Swiss editor, who has already raised a million Swiss francs ($234,000) or about a fourth of what he needs for the project. Trogen's town meeting voted him the eleven-acre site, overlooking Lake Constance. Swiss students volunteered their labor...
Last week also brought news of a new $5,000,000-a-year Army project. The Manhattan District's new atomic laboratory in the New York metropolitan area (TIME, July 8) got a charter as Associated Universities. Inc. Participants: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T., Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, Rochester, Pennsylvania...
Furry, formerly active in work on the Manhattan District project which led up to the successful development of the atomic bomb, is now a member of the Cambridge branch of the national organization of atomic scientists...