Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wind. District Ranger Lou Geil, 43, the fire boss, had no time to waste talking; the fire was storming close to the park's Wilsonia Village and one of its most precious preserves: a great grove with thousands of magnificent sequoias, including the General Grant tree, the second largest on earth (267 ft. high and 107 ft. in circumference).* Geil mobilized every man possible, laid miles of pipeline overnight, pumped continuous sprays of water for 24 hours on smoking trees to save the village and the enormous grove...
...Bernadete was not content to wait for her miracle. Together with Dr. Lopez, she vowed to "do something for others." Existing plans for a modern, 150-bed cancer hospital were dug from a pigeonhole and, after a persuasive visit from Bernadete, city authorities voted a grant of land for the building. Architects promised their work free, but when construction costs were estimated at $370,000, Bernadete decided that Recife's financial resources were too limited. She decided to go to Rio. "We must be quick," she said. "I have so little time...
...will show its wares and way of life in seven fairs, in accordance with a program blueprinted a year ago by President Eisenhower. Alarmed that Russia had peddled its goods at 133 fairs in four years, while U.S. exhibitors stayed home, the President obtained a $5,000,000 grant last year from Congress to put the U.S. on the world fair circuit. The aim: build world trade and good will. In its first year, the program did both: more than 12,000,000 visitors in 15 countries gained an insight into how Americans live, while 25,000 trade inquiries were...
...Frank B. Baird Foundation of Buffalo, N.Y. has set up a $23,000 scholarship fund to be applied to a student either in the College or a graduate school. This was the largest capital gift, outside of a general grant of $181,775.25 by the Harvard Fund. The Baird grant was the only one, either capital or for current use, which mentioned specifically the College, in its allocation...
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