Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact was that to most Democrats, including Senator Robinson, Passamaquoddy had by last week become one of the unpleasantest words in the language. Apparently doomed were this $36,000,000 Maine tide-harnessing project and the $146,000,000 Florida Ship Canal when, after Congress had refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures. He had started them on relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk...
...specific problem in slum clearance, certainly not unlikely to confront a planner, almost inevitably becomes involved in the question of the economic practicality of such a project as well as in the difficulties of evaluating sociological, legal, medical, and engineering problems. To train men to fill positions demanding such decisions requires more than a course or two in laying out side streets and grass plots...
Well above the Arctic Circle, Wrangel Island lies north of the northeastern tip of Siberia. In 1924 the Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...transportation and reconstruction of material. Carl Akeley's dream was beginning to come true. Next year he died of fever in Africa, was buried in the high gorilla country which he loved. With such a good start, however, the museum was eager to go ahead with the project. Money was forthcoming from other wealthy people, most of whom demanded only that they have the fun of shooting the animals. Three hundred thousand dollars was provided for six expeditions. Painters went along to sketch the settings in color, and photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons...
...Henderson writes, "several among the Harvard group have written to this office with regard to the organization of a Harvard Chapter of the League, but, thus far, we have not been advised that leaders for such a project have been selected, a move which would be necessary before the orderly establishment of a Harvard chapter could take place...