Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director of Muzak Corp., ex-Adman William Burnett Benton found that there was a market for canned music, free of advertising plugs, piped directly into clubs, hospitals, restaurants, factories. Bill Benton decided to apply the same system to radio. He lined up big-name sponsors for such a project, including his old partner, Chester Bowles, now OPA boss; the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins; Businessman Beardsley Ruml. He laid his plan before the Federal Communications Commission (retiring FCC Chairman James L. Fly is expected to join the group). This week the group is incorporating as Subscription Radio...
...best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister Pitt's latest speech was the best one that he had ever read, Johnson replied: "I wrote [it] in a garret in Exeter Street." Ten years before the birth of Noah Webster, Johnson went to work on his greatest project, his English dictionary...
...stimulate interest in the project, the College is offering prizes, either in books or cash. Forty dollars will be awarded for the highest score on the first four tests combined: Correctness of Expression, Interpretation of the Social Studies, Interpretation of the Natural Sciences, and Interpretation of Literary Materials. Fifteen dollars is the prize for the highest score on each of the first four individually. Five dollars will be awarded for the top score on each of the mathematics tests...
...project is classed as a Navy job, because it is in a Navy theater. But although most of the work is being done by servicemen, the credit for its success belongs mainly to a group of 25 civilian experts from the Foreign Economic Administration, who are headed by tall, weatherbeaten Knowles Ryerson. Starting from scratch little more than a year ago, Ryerson and his men have furnished enough seed, fertilizer, machinery, tools and sound advice to bring the farms up to a high level of efficiency, despite obstacles that would make many farmers down tools...
Until recently, the farm project was confined to the South Pacific, where Ryerson and his 25 fieldmen also opened fisheries and started lumbering, by last spring were producing 250,000 board feet a day. But the program proved so satisfying that the Navy asked for the cultivation of 10,000 more acres in the Central Pacific as soon as the fighting moved on far enough. Eventually its chain of oversized victory gardens may reach all the way to Japan...