Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Basin of the Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National...
...This is not the situation here at Harvard at the present time," Newby emphasized, "but it could develop in the future as the result of increased pressure on companies for college graduates...
...look toward publishing a journal in the field--an "American Journal of National Defense," as he calls it. The publication would fill the gaps left by service journals today. It would be directed to a foreign affairs audience, and would provide a means for presenting policies as they develop with both sides of each issue printed at the same time, side by side...
...inevitable expansion for his project, but he must first find permanent financial backing for the program. Grants from foundations are usually offered for short terms, with the expectation that the projects will be able to find other backers once established. But after Leach recruits some "angels," he plans to develop the program into a field with continuity. He eventually wants related courses of study offered in the College, starting with the junior year. These courses would lead to a series of seminars and graduate courses...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), one atomic expert warned that there are still some major technical roadblocks in the way of "practical, low cost nuclear power." Progress from here on, said Sylvania Electric Products' Engineer Stanley B. Roboff, "will be only as fast as we can develop new and better materials for use in reactors...