Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Californians, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...
...project will cost in toto upwards of $170,000,000. Materials for the dam were not included in the builders' contract, will be bought separately by the Government. The Southern Pacific's railroad tracks and Western Union's wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
...idea that working people ought to get a chance at Art dates precisely from the time when the Industrial Revolution put an end to handicraft. Its prophets in Victorian England were William Morris and John Ruskin; one form of its fulfillment now is the Federal Art Project's Community Centre program (TIME, Sept. 5). Meanwhile, strict Marxists interpret the social use of art narrowly to mean that art should be an instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit...
Last week, Newark Airport suddenly found itself all spruced up with apparently no place to go. For, with the $23,000,000, 550-acre North Beach project half completed, energetic Fiorello LaGuardia had won commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach...
...Jersey's Committeeman J. Parnell Thomas (Rep.), unenthusiastic, declined to discuss Mr. Valenti's charges with newspapermen. What really excited committee members who had gone to investigate in Manhattan, he said, was the Federal Writers Project. "It is," said Investigator Thomas, "a hotbed of communism...