Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great fun had Baltimore wits last week as. after three weeks of rain, a crew of WPA workers resumed digging and scraping a desolate spot in Herring Run Park, hard by the city incinerator. News had got round that this project, a model yacht basin costing $40,000, of which the city was putting up $10,000, also included a polo field, WPA's first concession to the most luxurious U. S. sport...
Indignant Secretary Stuart McElroy of the Baltimore Model Yacht Club then began writing to the papers, explaining that the model yacht basin would cost at least three-quarters of the $40,000. Demanded Mr. McElroy: "Whether the $10,000 polo field is a worthy project or not remains to be seen, but who can dispute the worthiness of a model yacht basin...
Silent on Collection Project...
With the collection project barely under way, MacLeish declined to enlarge on his work in the library which is as he termed it "like nothing ever before tried...
Planned for use within a twelvemonth, with finishing touches to go on for a year more, the eventual Washington National Airport will have a seaplane terminal at its south end, can be extended half its size again by filling in to the northeast. Peskiest bug in the project is the new, and roundly protested, research laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, sticking up like a sore thumb on Gravelly Point no feet above the Potomac and just to the west of the proposed field. Last week CAA and army engineers were planning to build the necessary air field...