Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an "economy" committee of the Georgia General Assembly, investigating the $5,000,000 contracts of the Department of Public Welfare for insane asylum buildings at Milledgeville and other projects, turned up one with Robert & Co. which promised the firm 6% (some $300,000) for "architectural and engineering services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen...
...want to do? Remain in France? Have you means to do so? Work in America, [South and Central] in your profession? Return to [Insurgent) Spain? What motives impel you to adopt this decision?" Officials of the Loyalist Ministry of State declared that their Government intends to see this resettlement project through to the end, even if it means paying the expenses of those refugees who choose to go to Mexico or South America...
Seven and one-half hours a day, six days a week, ever since October, WPAsters have been working on a sewer project 100 yards from Dr. Clendening's home. Building a sewer, as everyone knows, usually involves a lot of pneumatic drilling. One day last week the WPA foreman beheld Dr. Clendening approaching. He was brandishing an ax and shouting: "I'm going to stop this thing once...
...third of a nation" (Paramount) is an adaptation of the Federal Theatre Project's most successful play (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). It was directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones) and produced in Astoria, L. I.'s Eastern Service Studios by Harold Orlob. Its purpose: to denounce bad housing...
Microfilm recording, latest process for copying rare manuscripts, is being used by Widener Library in the reproducing of 37 foreign newspapers. The project has been made possible by a revolving Rockefeller Foundation fund...