Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last March Painter George Diddle addressed U.S. painters picked by the War Department to record the war. The painters will now have to search for their own stars: Congress has refused to put up the project's funds (a requested $125,000 out of the $71,500,000,000 of the 1943-44 Army appropriation bill...
...yawpings of excited children were heard in the PBH corner of the Yard last week as a day nursery for the offspring of Harvard men, the latest Phillips Brooks House project, was revealed to the public as an outdoor play-pen after nine months of quiet activity indoors...
Just what U.S. military authorities thought of the project was impossible to learn. Hollywood rumors, sifted down, indicated that Disney had received some politely unofficial suggestions that the book really wasn't good picture material. Apparently no stronger pressure was applied. Disney, at any rate, did not produce the picture in a military vacuum; his studio's main job now is turning out war training films, and he has ample contact with the armed forces...
...hoarse Frederick Riebel Jr. juggled his 275 pounds above a spade in bucolic Bucks County, Pa. last week while grinning workers watched. Professionally he scooped up a spadeful, started a housing project for Brewster Aeronautical Corp. workers. The Brewster workers thought their president did well. Brewster stockholders are also pleased with Riebel's performance. At the annual meeting, a stockholder moved a vote of confidence in present Brewster management. The chorus of "ayes" was the first time in many a bomber's moon there has been enough confidence in Brewster to shout...
...Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced the flow of materials...