Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March CAAdministrator Theodore P. Wright asked Congress to start the country toward that goal by providing federal funds (to be matched by state funds) to build more than 3,000 new airports. The Senate felt that only $375 million could be spared for the project...
Poison & Push Buttons. Congressmen listening to last week's testimony soon learned that the bill could not be judged by ordinary standards. Said Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project which developed the bomb: "We are flirting with national suicide if this thing gets out of control. If one mistake is made, we may face national disaster...
First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...
Meanwhile, U.S. officials were going ahead unofficially with hopeful, picturesque plans. In charge of the project (nicknamed "Arctops") was Lieut. Colonel Charles J. Hubbard, a leading authority on arctic living and flying conditions...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...