Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gander Lake, which is said to be ice-free all year, is a clearing for a seaplane base, with two channels almost wholly dredged. On the Newfoundland Railway stands a new station already labeled "Newfoundland Airport." Hotels, customs, hangars are soon to go up. Cost of the entire project...
...late father, a judge, once jailed her for 30 days. Ellen pays little attention to him until he announces that he is sailing to take a job in Belgium, whereupon she decides that they owe themselves a week end alone before he leaves. When Mrs. Murray, horrified at this project, tries to dissuade her daughter, Ellen confounds her by bringing up an amorous episode from Mrs. Murray's past, discovered while Ellen was researching a thesis at college, and by the further discovery that the amiable house guest of the moment (Nicholas Joy) is the poet who wrote...
...erected as a WPA project, the statue will cost $35,000, and weigh 65 tons. A new stainless alloy containing 2% white glass will be used for the sheets forming the statue. There will be an interior staircase, an observation platform in the Apostle of Humility's head, and on the too of his head will splash a drinking fountain and bath for the wild birds St. Francis loved...
...Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the U. S. Public Health Service, and her surgeon general, Thomas Parran Jr. They have the sanitation of the Ohio and Mississippi flood areas to supervise (see p. 19), the campaign against venereal diseases to energize (see above) and, a favorite project of both, they are starting a new Federal farm-hospital for narcotic addicts at Fort Worth, Tex. Miss Roche and Dr. Parran considered this project so important that, prior to the Ohio flood disaster, they had arranged to go to Fort Worth this week to lay the cornerstone...
...Angeles needed water, and agitation started in 1902 culminated a few years later in the construction of the Owens Valley aqueduct, a project which could incidentally develop considerable power. Employed as a consulting engineer on the job, Mr. Scattergood showed the city that it could sell power cheaper than the private utilities and still make enough profit to pay for all construction. Upshot was formation of what is now the potent Los Angeles Power Bureau with Mr. Scattergood as chief electrical engineer & general manager, a job he has held ever since...