Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interval between Yalta and San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg worked long & hard at another project: to liberal ize the provisions of Dumbarton Oaks...
...Still Another? For many years after the war, Bob Ingalls devoutly believes, his yard will be busy. The diesel-electric locomotive orders should take up the slack between ship contracts. Last week shipping circles buzzed with a rumor of still another project. The rumor: after the war Ingalls will build a fleet of fast ships, operate them under his own house-flag carrying fruits and vegetables from West Coast ports to Europe...
...Corbusier is drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...project the Government had designed to promote postwar prosperity, the five-month-old Industrial Development Bank, made a progress report last week. The bank, a kind of little-business RFC, has thus far made 33 loans totalling $1,340,500-to 20 different kinds of manufacturers (including paper, textiles, ceramics, glass), in most cases for expansion of plant or for new machinery...
Died. Gloria Dickson, 27, blond cinemactress who made one long leap from the 1937 Federal Theater Project to Hollywood stardom (They Won't Forget}, then never quite fulfilled the critics' bright hopes; of suffocation when her home was gutted by fire; in Hollywood...