Word: projects
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Foreign aid is not a new field for the I.L.G.W.U., which has many foreign-born members. Over the years, the union has handed out a generous $25 million to various philanthropic projects, many of them in other countries. One project is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Maritime Trades Institute, a boys' orphanage near Palermo, Sicily, which the I.L.G.W.U. has supported to the tune of $600,000 over the past eight years. Other labor unions (notably the steelworkers and the carpenters) have been lavish, too. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has contributed $600,000 to Israel, $500,000 to eight...
...partnership began in 1933, at a meeting in Sacramento. At the time, the state legislature had just passed a bill authorizing the Central Valley Project, which was conceived largely as a flood-control, irrigation and salinity-control development in Northern California. But the powerful Pacific Gas & Electricity Co. correctly foresaw that the project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith...
...personal breakage in this business to do it any other way," says Clem. "You give too much of yourself during a campaign." After they signed up with P.G. & E., Whitaker & Baxter were suspected of selling out to the private power interests. Not at all, says Clem: "The Central Valley Project was not conceived as a power project, but it began to turn into one when the Federal Government stepped in. We were against that, but not the original purpose of C.V.P...
...bridge, to be erected at the expense of the Metropolitan District Commission, is now being designed by the Brask Engineering Company of Boston. McKim, Meade and White, a New York firm, is serving as architectural consultant on the project...
...Brask Company will submit their plan to the MDC "early next year," Brask said yesterday." The five MDC commissioners will then vote to accept or reject the plan, almost always just a formality. Bids will then be accepted for the project for approximately three weeks...