Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received a telegram and shipping bill saying that the statue was about to arrive. My letter, not given to the press, said that the statue was unacceptable, and if dumped on the City would be used as fill in a reclamation project. The whole thing was a cheap advertising stunt on the part of the radio program, and a feeble but expensive practical joke by this station on the veteran. Incidentally, as we expected, the statue was mutilated when it arrived, the head having been broken off the body. No doubt we might have said nothing and have embarrassed...
...Lima last July, Businessman Pawley has been busy trying to be constructive. He helped arrange for settlement of Government debts so that much-needed U.S. Export-Import Bank credits might be obtained. He induced U.S. oil companies to spend money developing Peruvian oil reserves, and aided the Santa Valley project to exploit zinc and nearby Cañón del Pato water power to create a new electrolytic zinc industry. With the formation of a sturdy new Cabinet last week, prospects for Pawley's efforts looked the brightest since he arrived...
...Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse...
Last week Washington's Smithsonian Institution proudly announced completion of a postwar project: a new reconstruction of the dodo, a rare item in U.S. museums. Smithsonian curators were sure that their newest version, made in almost equal parts of old bones, guttapercha, historical data and imagination, is the most complete and accurate reconstruction...
...would be tailored to the veterans' in- comes to as great an extent as possible. The University must pay for the preparation of the site, supplying utilities, maintenance, and miscellaneous costs; since the venture must pay for itself, rents must be high enough to cover these expenses. The entire project will be handled through the Housing Office...