Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well as in, cannot laugh off. Alcatraz is a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was the invention and pet project of Franklin Roosevelt's first Attorney General, rapier-nosed Homer Stillé Cummings...
...year, according to their means (a few pay nothing), are expected to share in the work, whatever they pay. For its new buildings, Black Mountain bought a site at Lake Eden, few miles from its present quarters. It hopes to get gifts to start its project and have at least one building to move into by the fall...
...Master of PWA made a fine witness in his own behalf. He could report that, after allotting before last January 1 all the $965,000,000 given him for fiscal 1939, he still had on hand 2,800 projects approved as feasible and suitable for PWA to undertake. He could report that of all the hundreds of millions loaned by PWA to States and municipalities, only $5,000,000 or 4/5% had been defaulted. Meantime, PWA had made $12,000,000 by selling at premium local bonds put up as loan collateral. Better than 80% of all bond issues proposed...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...
Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding to 40 oldsters the honored place in front of rail. To the time-beating of a quavery old leader, everyone joined in the traditional opening number: Brethren, we met to worship, and adore the Lord...