Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipeline is really dead, the U.S. State Department was mainly responsible for killing it. Ignoring the technical problems and the opposition of most of the U.S. oil industry, State refused to consider any concrete Government oil project until after the diplomatic generalities were over. State (plus the oil-wise Navy, which is pro-pipeline but anti-Ickes) now hopes it can achieve the pipeline's purposes without the pipeline...
Second Revolution. Like all wartime governors, Saltonstall has benefited from bulging coffers and full employment. But even before Pearl Harbor he had begun a project which may be his major contribution in office: a planning board for a postwar revolution of Massachusetts' entire manufacturing economy. As an early bird measure, it bore the now strange title of a "post-defense" program. Its aim: to restore Massachusetts' once-privileged industrial position. Its board members knew that if New England insisted on standing "where she always stood," she would be standing still or going backward. Short-sighted Yankee businessmen...
...There have been other plans for harnessing Fundy's tides. Notable among them: Franklin D. Roosevelt's short-lived Passamaquoddy Project...
...Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan to do a massive outdoor mural, probably in Times Square. The mural will be painted by 15 Latin American artists under Siqueiros' direction. The subject has not yet been disclosed, but it will be part of a vast project which Painter Siqueiros (now a devoted United Nations supporter) has worked out for an "authentic continental art for victory...
...accumulated peacetime scientific knowledge with an idea to military applications. This is pretty well finished now, and almost everyone in the OSRD is reportedly, working on very practical problems for which solutions are to be expected before the end of the war. In the development of new weapons, every project must offer promise of equipment which will be in the field by the summer...