Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week work was far enough along for the Army to reveal the project. How far the Army had clawed its way into Burma was not disclosed. Also secret was the road's specific destination. But the general direction was obvious: towards the enemy entrenched in northern Burma...
...Canadian Order in Council provides that six months after war's end half of all oil wells and similar developments revert to the Dominion, the other half to the company developing the project...
Government will have no postwar share in the field it financed and developed. That is why the Truman Committee thinks the contract rates a good close scrutiny. Certainly, in local opinion, the Canol project will never pay its cost at present production. Only if larger reserves, now being sought, are found will the U.S. stand a chance of getting its money's worth, beyond military value...
...dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers). It is this ceaseless, driving movement-which was the essence of the project-that imparts a quality of great valor to the workers, their machines, their lonely towns and camps, the prodigious country they work...