Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods are wet, the cotton sticks to them and winds itself around them. The adhering cotton is then mechanically stripped from the rods and passed into a hopper...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
...Hour" began by reaching a million youthful listeners. Last week it was estimated that through benign "Uncle Walter" some 6,000,000 children are learning to know great music. Proceeds of last week's Manhattan Jubilee went to the Musicians' Emergency Fund, now Damrosch's pet project. When on the same day NBC feted him on behalf of his school children he was again too modest, too "undeserving...
Dean Hindmarsh's discussions of Japanese foreign policy will close for this year the series of special lectures sponsored by the Department of Government. This project, which has been a step towards an increased flexibility in the Harvard system of education, should be continued next year and, if possible, be supplemented by similar lectures in other departments...
...spread his plans wide open to the world: Brooklyn Beach Gardena Apartments, Inc., 2,000 feet of water frontage on the Bay, 5,000 rooms, fireproof construction, automatic elevators, incinerators, radio outlets, 2,500 men to build them, 7,500 others to make the materials required. "This project will pay all taxes, city, State and Federal. All experts in consultation agreed that the property is one of the finest, not only in New York but in the country...