Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been an editor on the WPA Federal Writers' Project for more than three years. I take work relief because I need it but I want permanent work...
Frank propaganda is engaged in by Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending $140,000,000 this year to build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...
Three years ago an extremely successful tournament was held, but the heads of intramural sports feel that the present project will be even more enthusiastically received. In 1936, when 150 men signed up, Winthrop captured first honors and lost to Yale's champion sextet by the score...
...raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville Project, Mr. Ross heard of the tribulations of Nebraska's "little TVA" and recommended Mr. Myers...
...Press, "students began pushing parked cars into the streets and at one point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...