Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-sufficient community is the aim of the project. Along with the manager's offices, grocery and drug stores will occupy the central portion of the area. Several merchants have shown willingness to undertake the shopping concessions...
...Because the Pacific war's urgency rushed the road project through, Nicaraguans call it Hirohito's Highway...
Ever since 1929, the U.S. has backed a highway to the Canal Zone, has aided by small grants to Central Americans. Pearl Harbor gave the project a terrific boost.*U.S. Army engineers poured in some $40 million, accomplished little. The P.R.A., with some $23 million, did infinitely more. Central American Governments matched 50% of P.R.A. contributions where they could. Mexicans, who pay for their own roads, speeded...
...also for extracurricular advice about Negro problems. ("He'd say: 'Come right in, Mrs. Bethune, sit right down. Now tell me about your people.' ") Occasionally she tried to boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin Roosevelt's initials on a silver band. Says Mrs. Bethune: "I swagger it sublimely. It gives me strength and courage and nothing to fear...
...Cyclotron Laboratory building will be located behind the Gordon MeKay Engineering Laboratory and will house the University's now cyclotron. The former cyclotron was used extensively during the war, both here and at the army's Los Almos, New Mexico, atomic bomb project. It has been given to the Army...