Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop more exact methods of finding out the who, what, when, where and why of radio listening, particularly on behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month...
Gloomy forecast of growing governmental activity is the fact that a W.P.A. truck has been found lurking behind the Hasty Pudding Building. It has been learned from unofficial sources that a Federal Writers Project will soon try to resuscitate the college "funny" magazine...
...private enterprise the Federal Theatre Project last week handed over the biggest money-maker in its history: the Swing Mikado. After May 1, Chicago's Marolin Corp. will control the show, re-employ its all-Negro cast of 80. They will provide new sets since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because...
...OREGON TRAIL-Federal Writers' Project-Hastings House...
...best of the Federal Writers' Project's books, The Oregon Trail describes the highway as it is now (near the crest of the Sherman Range, Wyo., 8,835 ft. up, it warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across...