Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come into the business world with a contribution of their own to offer . . . we are self-supporting . . . we are going to build a 26-story building for professional and business women . . . you [the assembled] are now our partners . . . your $200 has purchased each of you four shares in the project...
Commenting on the plan of the First National Corporation to allow Harvard men opportunity to try-out for positions as actors in their institution, Mr. Lyon said. "I am in favor of the project, but I believe it will prove quite expensive. Only the experiment will determine its expediency. At present there are not many college men in Hollywood who have advanced far as actors, but more are coming there every year...
First National Pictures and College Humor have united in this joint project by which they intend to make a careful survey of 30 of the larger colleges of the country and after which they intend to pick ten men who will then be given every opportunity by the First National Corporation to become screen stars. Sometime next month, to be announced later by the sponsors of the plan, a make up man, a camera man, and a competent judge of photographic personality and studio requirements will come to Cambridge. These men will choose ten applicants whom they will "shoot" immediately...
Muscle Shoals, a Federal project, still hangs fire, but the Alabama Legislature at its last session authorized ten millions of state money for a state-controlled terminal at the port of Mobile, whither the Warrior flows. This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham." After years of "becoming," Birmingham was at last to be "great...
...Thompson, who publishes all the newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...