Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcoming tremendous obstacles to build this communications link, which serves the Stilwell Road, the pipeline and many airfields, these Signal Corps men have made an important contribution to victory over Japan and certainly should not be ignored in any discussion of the project...
Organized in North Africa and based in southern Italy, the Fifteenth was originally designed to pace a Balkan invasion. That project was dropped before Twining had had his B-17s settled in Italy...
...Tecumseh Friends Church I and eaten by the pastor as breakfast cereal. The remainder of that tiny crop was sown on a 24-by-60-ft. plot of land given by Henry Ford, to whose thrifty imagination the lot-from-a-little scheme had strong appeal.* As the project burgeoned, Ford continued to donate the geometrically progressing areas of land, and at last September's sowing personally broadcast a peck of the symbolic wheat...
Somewhat oversimplified in Architect Wright's description-a "steel basket shot with concrete"-the outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
Before the project got under way, OWI spent two years planning, hiring a multilingual staff of 250 (about half British), experimenting and entangling itself in red tape. Colonel William Paley, peacetime head of CBS, was called in to set things straight. He negotiated with the BBC for equipment, promised that ABSIE would clear out 90 days after V-E day. Robert Sherwood, then OWI's overseas director, arranged the programs; he said that ABSIE would "join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe - and to our enemies...