Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than an even bet to last six months. Bolivia faced starvation, counterrevolution, a serious Communist threat, an empty treasury and a world glut of tin, its only valuable export. The U.S. helped save the situation by sending free wheat and buying tin for the strategic stockpile. Cost of grant-aid to the U.S.: $17 million-10? for each U.S. citizen. Two and a half years later, Bolivia still needs more loans and grants. But it has a better chance than ever before, because it has now completed-with U.S. help-an economically vital road linking its high Andes...
...Atomic Energy Commission, in a speech last week warned that Soviet Russia might soon create nuclear power plants for power-starved lands, and called on the U.S. for an all-out competitive effort "to put atomic power plants into operation, both here and abroad." For the first grant of a nuclear power reactor, Commissioner Murray suggested Japan-"the only land which has been engulfed in the white flame of the atom. Now, while the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains so vivid, construction of such a power plant in . . . Japan would be a dramatic and Christian gesture . . . a lasting monument...
...beneficiaries was the Foundation for World Government, started in 1948, she said, to "do something for the human 'family.' " At the time it was assumed that her $1,043,475 gift was tax deductible. Among the foundation's efforts in behalf of the human family: a grant of $500 to "World Citizen" Garry Davis so that he could read Tolstoy and Gandhi on a "needed vacation," $15,000 to a group drafting a world constitution...
...school was established in 1862 as one of the many "land grant" colleges authorized to teach agriculture and mechanical arts, and it came very close to being set up as a part of Harvard University. The state legislature finally decided, however, that a more rural location would be preferable for the new college, and thus the 1,000-acre Amherst site was selected...
...cure for cancer will be discovered down there on the other side of the pond (where the University's science buildings are located). After all, streptomycin was found at Rutgers, not Princeton," he says. "A man with brains can go a long way on the campus of a land-grant college," the President adds."There is a good deal lost for the college administrator in not forcing himself to spend time with the students," says President Mather. Here he confers with the head of a student organization...