Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the space age seemed to be moving in, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was able last week to make some solid news. The AEC reported that it is accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing...
...this, Duncan Ballantine hopes to make Robert play an even larger role in the partnership it has formed with Turkey. "The Turks," says he, "have done so much in the last 30 years. What they need, and what we need, is a center for the study of economic development. Our function should be more than merely education. We ought to be helping Turkey develop the ideas and the tools and the data of its economic growth...
Riding the Boom. Soon after Hearst died (TIME, Aug. 20, 1951), Marion took notice of the postwar building boom, decided that the time had come to develop her holdings. She hired the law firm of Bautzer, Grant, Youngman & Silbert, thereby got the services of Hollywood Lawyer-Bachelor-About-Town Gregson Bautzer and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. "I do what they tell me," says Marion. "Greg has a great mind for real estate. He's smarter than...
...Hollywood, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies revealed that she has bought the famed Desert Inn in Palm Springs, Calif, for $2,000,000, expects to spend a lot more for renovations and expansions: "I plan to develop it into a miniature Rockefeller Center...
...island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England develop a much better sense of the English language," says Graves, but I could never live far off from the Greenwich meridian...