Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
...thought to have died a natural death. It was freely predicted that Britain would ask for more time to consider the protocol proposals, owing to the fact that her Dominions had declined to attend an Imperial Conference on the subject. This, in turn, was regarded as unfavorable and a project was in hand to drop the security proposals out of the drafted protocol and refer the whole question to this year's Assembly. There was probably no truth in the report that Britain would offer France a separate security pact...
...played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about 75,000 acres of undeveloped coal fields, 150 producing mines, and an annual production of over 20,000,000 tons...
...composer Frank de Leone [Akron, Ohio]. . . . The company will comprise not less than 50 persons. . . . No money will be spared." To the East, to the West, said Signor Gallo, his opera company would go, tour 100 cities (not yet booked) east of the Rockies, perhaps go farther west. The project is being backed by the National Federation of Music Clubs...
...practically certain that the Subway rotunda in the Square will be reduced in size. The Committee on Street Railways favored the bill to reduce it when it met yesterday morning in the State House, although no definite action was taken. No one opposed the idea of the project...