Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail was chosen last year for the new Post Office Department building (TIME, March 2, 1936). Current discovery of Treasury art officials is not a young man from the West but a seasoned Connecticut artist whose murals are now waiting to be installed in a low-cost Federal Housing project in Stamford...
Last week, however, Congressman Bloom's latest project, the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution -which, since he is fond of appearing in costume, offers him delightful opportunities to appear as an early American patriot -came perilously close to shipwreck. Two years ago he got $10,000 to start his work, last year he got $200,000 more. Last week when he went back for $150,000 more he was very rudely treated. The celebration he has planned begins Sept. 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On Dec. 7 comes the anniversary of Delaware...
...Columbia and at Harvard Summer School. She got into social service work, teaching soiled urchins at South Boston's old Denison House. One day the telephone rang and a voice asked her if she would go along as a passenger on a transatlantic airplane flight. The sponsor of the project thought it would be good publicity to take a woman along. Amelia said at once that she would...
...menaced by factories, high tension lines, a bluff, several structures on the field including a blimp hangar. A highway runs across the field; a military guard and stoplights are supposed to halt automobiles when planes are coming in or going out. For years Congressional committees have toyed with the project of acquiring a municipal port. Nothing has been done. This week a commission appointed by Congress recommended purchase of a site near Camp Springs, Md. Opposition is certain to develop because it is ten miles from Washington...
Money expended on any construction project is 85% labor when traced through to the source of the materials. The Department of Labor says each man on contract construction under the commendable Ickes' WPA program meant 3½ men working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...