Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never put up, real estate operators grabbed land. By 1909 at least $7,500,000 had been sunk in the project, and the management was broke. Out forever stepped little Downey Harvey. Trains ran at each end for years, but in 1920 Ocean Shore was officially abandoned, its tracks torn...
...Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins' $12,000 salary. Administrator leaders had to filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being passed. Finally, assured by Leader Rayburn that he had just talked with the President and could promise "an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project," the rambunctious House agreed to put the bill aside for a week...
Just what was done for "every man, every section, every project" in the interim, no one would say definitely when the bill was taken up again one day last week. But that something had been done was immediately evident. Alabama's Joe Starnes, flood control bloc leader, let it be known that he had "positive assurance" that there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much...
...comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later project with alarm but, of course, the Go-Getter goes & gets. Amiable, rapid and pleasant to watch, The Go-Getter's sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor Winninger, with Victor Moore, George Arliss and Wallace Beery, as another contender for the position of the late Will Rogers...
...aviator delivered himself on the subject which most aviators consider the world's greatest joke. Wrote Charles Augustus Lindbergh in a letter which was read aloud by Clark University's President Wallace Walter Atwood at graduation ceremonies in Worcester, Mass.: "Clark University is taking part in a project which may have far-reaching effects on the future of civilization. For many years a member of the staff, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, has been experimenting with rockets...