Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valedictory made provision for the future: "a new group of executives to become heavily interested financially, to take over complete management." The valedictory mentioned the need of recreation, leisure, mentioned mysteriously an engineering project at New Brunswick, N. J., a Durant-controlled rayon plant in Virginia, other "interests," in all, "35 times greater than Durant with all its plants...
Epochal seems the recent project of fueling all German cities with a national network of such super gas mains...
...Still more jobs would be open if Ford plans for a two-mile tunnel, to bring 1,000,000,000 gallons of water a day from the Detroit River, were approved by city authorities. The tunnel would be the property of the city, although built by Ford money. The project was laid before the Detroit aldermen last week...
...Campbell's farms (in Montana) are vast and profitable because he uses machinery almost exclusively for planting, cultivating and harvesting. The Russians want him to put his system to work on 10,000,000 acres of wheat and flax land. His project may lead to the purchase of $100,000,000 worth of U. S. farm machinery. The Russians also want Mr. Campbell to spend three months each year with them. On that invitation he was not determined before he sailed from Manhattan...
Capt. Bartlett deprecated airplanes and dirigibles: "They can't dredge, can't take samples of water." He estimated that his freeze-and-drift project would cost $300,000. Purposes: study of magnetic & meteorological conditions, currents, water temperatures; mapmaking; procuring weather data...