What to do with 'Quoddy has been a prime question to New Dealers since Congress last spring quashed that ambitious project to harness the tidal waters of Maine's Passamaquoddy Bay for a giant New England power system (TIME, June 8). Last month the last of a $7,000,000 Works Progress Administration appropriation gave out, left the War Department holding a collection of trim homes, shops, warehouses built for the project's administrative workers on a sandy strand near Eastport. The skeleton staff decamped and 'Quoddy Village became a ghost town.
Having combed New Deal agencies for...
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