Word: granting
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Freud and Jung will soon be joining St. Augustine and Luther as prominent figures in the curriculum of the Harvard Divinity School. Under the terms of a grant announced yesterday, the National Institute of Mental Health is awarding $425,893 to Harvard, Loyola University of Chicago, and Yeshiva University of New York to develop a mental health curriculum for theological students...
...Miss Providakes modestly saw fit not to grant encores, it is to be hoped that we may have a full encore recital soon...
...unit at Priest Rapids, climaxed a four-year tug-of-war over the quiet Columbia River valley. In 1950 Congress authorized 100% federal financing, for Priest Rapids, as recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers. But in 1952 P.U.D. Manager Glenn Smothers, Attorney Nat Washington Jr. and fellow Grant County inhabitants, who were convinced that the power project could and should be locally financed, battled public-power advocates in Congress to win legislation withdrawing Priest Rapids from the federal projects list. In rapid succession, Grant County P.U.D. fought court skirmishes with Washington's State Power Commission, which wanted...
Fortnight ago, the dogged utility district tasted victory: the first Grant County bond issue was sold by a nationwide investment banking syndicate headed by Halsey, Stuart & Co. The transaction marked one of the biggest private investments ever made in hydroelectric power. Grant County's financing plan also was unusual: to help shoulder the costs, twelve public and private utility companies in three states have signed 50-year contracts for 63½% of Priest Rapids power output, guaranteed repayment of the debt...
...Northwesterners doubt that the investment will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...