Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother Dirlam and choked Mother Ward, for the greatest obstacle in the development of air travel is the public's fear of flight. To counteract the fear propaganda of Fannie Ward and other parents who do their broadcasting less publicly, United Air Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings. Various other winged characters teach Speedy...
...still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped out in careful detail...
...dress her poems in proud, premature long pants, Poet Rukeyser succeeds, in The Book of the Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took...
...confused with U. S. One, a guide to the famed Maine-to-Florida motor route, published last month by the WPA Federal Writers' Project...
...novelist. Last week the promise of one appeared. Uncle Tom's Children, the first book of a 29-year-old, Mississippi-born Negro, won a $500 prize from Story Magazine as the best creative work done by any of the 1,200 writers on the Federal Writers' Project...