Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given to a plan which has been talked about for some 50 years and has been passed over by four previous Congresses, largely because of unrelenting opposition from 1) Southern California power interests who profit under the present distribution of Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument is invaded today, Yellowstone will be tomorrow's victim...
...pressagent's help, Miss Antiaircraft Battery C. She did not gush or twitter or desperately pull wires for a chance to get in the movies. Twice she turned down good Hollywood contracts. When she finally signed on the line, she forced mighty M-G-M itself to grant her special terms...
...that it will add 68 more at eleven new campuses. The company's goal: a total of 400 four-year scholarships, at an estimated annual total of $500,000, with the accompanying $100 yearly allowance toward the expenses of each student's faculty adviser and a $500 grant to the campus of his choice...
...University may grant the HDC space in the bindery of the Harvard University Press for centralizing its administrative and workshop facilities. The final decision on the concession is expected today, Douglas W. Bryant, Administrative Assistant Librarian in charge of the bindery, said yesterday...
...Louisville, a city that is better known for bourbon than Beethoven, and probably always will be. But the Louisville Orchestra has just rounded out its first year of a four-year plan that has made it the world's busiest performer of new music: under a $400,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954), it has commissioned and played a new work for almost every week in the year. Records and tapes are played on Louisville's closed circuit and radio programs are also sent to the Voice of America, the BBC and European stations...