Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the hugeness of the budget presaged backbreaking taxes and empty shelves for civilians, it was greeted with less grumbling than a few million dollars for a Federal Theater Project a few years ago. For of every dollar that the U.S. spends next year, 96? will go for the war or for interest on a public debt that was largely built by war. Said Franklin Roosevelt: "[The budget] reflects the determination of the civilians to 'pass the ammunition...
...drive a person insane." He, working his way through Syracuse University, graduated in 1931, went on to magazine writing, reading for publishers, etc. After the trip to Sicily described in Mount Allegro, he went to Washington as a member of the staff of the WPA Writer's Project, has been on the Government payroll ever since...
Norris's request for questions from the floor immediately brought one on the TVA, and the Senator launched into a discussion of the project he fathered and personal reminiscences about its growth. The important thing about TVA, he said, was not power, not flood control, and not navigation; but its human values. It was only the first step, he said, in bringing all the resources of the country to those who live...
...from personal experience and gave a succinct and lucid talk. Nearly all of the Trade Union Fellows attended the Business Executives Conference at the Business School on December 5, at which problems of manpower were under discussion, and made valuable contributions to the proceedings. As the report on the project sums it up, "Although they (the Trade Union Fellows) are getting much from the University, they are giving as much as they are getting...
...this vein, the latest report on the project states, "Every teacher knows that students learn as much from each other as they learn from the faculty. There is no doubt that the addition of Trade Union Fellows to the Harvard student body helps to make Harvard a better University by broadening and enriching the contacts which the students are able to make...