Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Tunis stormed aroused colons (overseas Frenchmen) from neighboring Morocco and Algeria. They came to join their Tunisian counterparts in angry protest against Premier Edgar Faure's agreement with Habib Bourguiba, leader of Tunisia's moderate Arab nationalists, which would grant Tunisians substantial control over their country. "There can be no French grandeur without French North Africa!" the colons proclaimed...
...their obligation to work three days a week for the patron. Instead, he increased their productivity so much that returns from Vicos' cash crops rose from $2,000 a year to $10,000. The profit nicely covered the needed fertilizer, seeds, buildings and farmers' loans. The Carnegie grant (around $18,000 a year) covered the research end; the hacienda operation paid for itself almost from the start...
...mental institution, the public has slowly become more and more aware of the forgotten patients and the startling statistics existing in mental hospitals throughout the nation. Recently, three actions have put the problem in sharper focus: a Harvard volunteer program, a state-wide report, and a national foundation grant, each in different ways, have shown encouraging details within a generally bleak outline...
Even with volunteer programs and increased state budgets the basic problem in mental health remains unsolved: how to find both a cure and a prevention. The answer, pointed up by last week's Ford Foundation grant of $15 million, is research. Already over 700,000 mental patients fill more than half of all available hospital beds in the U.S., and the rate is on the increase. Yet less than one percent of all expenditure for mental illness now goes to research. Ford has shown the way that both public and private agencies should follow...
...entire U.S. Steel grant is designated for liberal arts, business administration, scientific and engineering training, and graduate study...