Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 20 years thereafter Engineer Cooper tried in vain to obtain backing for his tide-harnessing project, to win the consent of Canada and the state of Maine. Then one day in 1933 he explained his plan all over again to Franklin Roosevelt. The President, still enthusiastic, was now able to be of real help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt...
...Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels...
...last January the placid sardine-canning village of Eastport on Cobscook Bay was a booming town. Some 5,000 Maine unemployed were working day & night on the project. Three labor camps had been established. On Moose Island, Quoddy Village with 130 colonial houses had been built, with dormitories for both sexes of dam-builders, with grandfather clocks, loveseats, early colonial furniture and $16,000-houses for executives...
...important feature of this conference is represented in its aspects as a project designed especially for undergraduates, through the cooperation of the undergraduate dailies at the three universities concerned in utilizing the resources of these intellectual centers in a joint effort to face the primary problems in the realm of public affairs. Out of such a movement can only come a better comprehension of those questions in which every citizen should have an active interest, and a better mutual relationship in the pursuit of progressive education. --The Daily Princetonian
...expect to increase the necessary duties and administration of the "G" men and at the same time withhold the funds to meet the added demands. The Florida canal was started with great excitement, but as soon as the initial fanfare had died down, funds were withdrawn, and the project temporarily abandoned. This must not happen to the Department of Justice, since the work has been begun admirably, and it would be utter folly to curtail its usefulness, just as it has reached the point where Americans are entitled to be extremely proud of it. If the Federal Government wishes...