Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Condition of Man is Volume III of this massive project. Volumes I & II: Technics and Civilization, a history of man as a user of tools, machines and apparatus (TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence...
Killers, Saints, Miracle Men. In 1938, Ben Botkin joined the Federal Writers' Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
When the Army launched its Canol pipeline-&-refinery project, the price for oil was fixed at $1.25 a barrel (plus production costs). The new price: 20? (plus production costs). Said Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: "The new agreement is fundamentally a matter of insurance that in the future the defense of the continent will not be endangered as it was early in 1942 by lack of locally produced...
...Very End." Whimsical, sometimes irascible Bill Somervell, pride of the highly professional Corps of Engineers, has been criticized for many things. He was lambasted for his snap decision in the Canol oilfield project, and for sticking to it in spite of his critics. (Operation of the $24,000,000 refinery, built with U.S. money in Canada's Northwest, began a fortnight ago-TIME, Oct. 4.) Hard-boiled and quick-tempered when the heat is on, West Pointer Somervell has long riled more ceremonious men by his disregard of red tape, his ruthless firing of officers he deems incompetent...
After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army had to find fuel to power the big bombers winging north in defense of Alaska and the Lend-Lease planes streaking towards the Soviet Union. Officially the manifold project dubbed Canol was proposed to Canada June 27, 1942, started two days later. First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link...