Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cooper, 57, hydraulic engineer who in 1919 conceived a plan for harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer Lieut. Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, now stationed at St. Paul-both very...
Lucky scholars will be rewarded in cash, the highest prize being $50. Although individual competition is expected in the coming encounter, sponsors of the project are encouraging three-man teams...
Soon a second, more elaborate announcement from Grover Aloysius Whalen reached Manhattan city desks. Remembering what he had not remembered before, Mr. Whalen called attention to "a major art project for the New York World's Fair of 1939" involving a Community Arts Centre, where workers in the arts will display the processes of painting, sculpture and printing. "Through these 'arts in production'," said Mr. Whalen, "we hope to bring home to the average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself...
Although reluctant to give utterance about the affair, Calfee insinuated through a press agent that the project was one of purely academic interest. "The project is one of purely academic interest," he said "no sex." Miss Harrison held quite another opinion. "Thus academic stuff is twaddle," she asserted. "Where would we be without...