Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anne Bosworth Greene, in the January Forum, writes so ingenuously of "What the Sailors Read" that her tale inspires comment in the same spirit even if grossly apart from reality. Her fancy took fire at a project for ship libraries that originated with a literary discussion in an Oxfordshire garden. It has attained, under the tutelage of a "canny but sympathetic little Scotchman" to actual experiment and its particulars afford novel refreshment...
...project of a transcontinental railroad was agitated as early...
...other main fields are under consideration. One is the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence, including the Erie canal. This includes stabilizing the lake level, and is both a waterway and power project. A joint commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...
...Harvard has employed no engineers to lay plans for a new Harvard stadium," declared Major F. W. Moore '92, yesterday in answer to a statement made in a Boston Newspaper to the effect that such a project was now under...
...prospect of the Speaker of the Legislature summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then...