Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hough in Denver is a veteran newspaperman who has reported for TIME on a part-time basis ever since 1932. He is the author of two books on Rocky Mountain lore-headed the Colorado Writers Project which prepared a monumental local history of the state-has also lived in Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico, visited every state from the Missouri to the Pacific. And in Seattle TIME'S Paul O'Neil has covered practically every big story that has broken in the Pacific Northwest in ten years-says his newshunting has "taken him to every hamlet...
Coordinating all the complex procedures and problems, especially of G-1 (Personnel) and G-4 (Supply), where U.S. and British methods differ most widely, is Chief Administrative Officer Lieut. General Sir Humfrey Gale. His pet project: a standard ration for British and U.S. Armies which will provide the same basic foods, yet satisfy the more violent national tastes (tea for Tommies, coffee for Yanks...
...part of the Great Design of Henry IV of France and his minister Sully. Rousseau included it in his Project for Perpetual Peace. Mild William Penn was for it. So was Abbe de Saint-Pierre. But not until 1815, when the reactionary genius of Prince Metternich bore splotchy fruit in what has accurately been called the Unholy Alliance, was international policing really put to the test of action...
...C.E.D. has embarked on 1) a nationwide sales job (with a Field Division); 2) an ambitious study project (with a Research Division). But the most important thing about C.E.D. is that, however big it sounds, the job it has taken on is strictly confined to what business can reasonably be expected to do on its own hook. If C.E.D. achieves its limited objective-and that is still, of necessity, a big if-U.S. businessmen can truthfully say that they have done all that businessmen can do to obviate widespread unemployment after...
...University of Kansas Professor Raymond Wheeler has in progress a vast project for measuring the rise & fall of civilization, has caught history repeating itself in cycles of 45, 90 and 510 years. He calculates that, if the pattern continues, civilization will slide into an abyss about 1960, begin a new Golden Age about...