Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought...
...first was Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
...fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Cambridge, and attended by scholars from many lands. Dr. Neurath's plan of an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science moved toward fruition. This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over the interpretation of facts, which is a potent stimulus to scientific progress. The Encyclopedia was rather to build bridges from one science to another, to show the unity of the scientific...
...Workers' Education project educates workers in their spare time. Across the country 60,000 laborers attend classes before and after hours in mining camps, sugar-beet shacks, cotton warehouses, union halls, construction sheds. Last week 18 State supervisors of WPA-WE reported to Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the gnarls in Workers' Education...
Last week 40 of his best paintings were exhibited at Bronx House. Although 11,000 New York children study each month at 128 Federal Art Project classes in Greater New York, his was the first one-man show of students trained in them. Commented on warmly by Manhattan critics, it made a greater sensation on Washington Avenue. "Congratulations with your son!" said neighbor ladies to Mrs. Cohen, as photographs of Alfred appeared in the newspapers. With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since...