Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project for constructing a through waterway from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes has had a curious history. One of its most ardent sponsors was William Hale Thompson, the former mayor of Chicago, who embroidered it to include the Mississippi River and make Dubuque and St. Louis great international ports. So many arguments have been put forward on both sides that the fundamental problem has been very effectively obscured; the winter closing of the St. Lawrence and the fact that the taxation might not fall primarily upon the beneficiaries are balanced against the export stimulation which cheap transportation...
...separate the United States and Canada. The military value of the waterway treaty, if war were declared, has no more than a scholastic importance; the military value of the waterway itself, concentrated and infinitely easier to defend than any Atlantic port, is negligible. The defeat of the St. Lawrence project on sectional grounds would be politically intelligible; Its defeat on grounds such as this, besides creating a difficult international situation, would be political bathos...
...museum enthusiastically announced that ground would be broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...
...original state by the time of Harvard's tercentennial celebration in 1936. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison puts forth the more ambitious proposal that the Georgian beauty of Harvard Hall as it existed in the eighteenth century be restored by means of rather extensive alterations. While the latter project might be ideal, it would undoubtedly be more expensive, in addition to depriving the College of much-needed class rooms...
...World. Near Dictator Stalin as he talked was Dictator Lenin's death mask in a glass case and opposite him a life-size portrait of "Ilyich1'- orating to proletarians. Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan. It did not call...