Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then on January 22, 1937 came the announcement of real fruits of the fund. Covering a 15 State area, the National Scholarship plan, the most extensive educational project of its kind, was scheduled for inauguration this Fall...
...terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
...mind was a vast plan for a combined land and seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable than bitterlings, who project their ovipositors in the presence of any of several hormones" (TIME...
...volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...