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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much shale and how much rock would have to be removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high as a total of 2,350,000 cu. yds. Tecon will probably collect around $3,391,000 for the job. To earn it, they will have to perform some tricky engineering feats, for the massive rock of Contractor's Hill lies atop the soft shale. Breaking it up will take at least 1,000,000 Ibs. of dynamite. If a careless or badly planned blast drops any of the rubble into the canal, the contractors will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANAL ZONE: Racing the Landslide | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Revenue scrutinize the educational foundations frequently, and warn them when they expand into the arena of politics. Reece's group has evinced some interest in this type of abuse of tax-exemption privileges, and by setting sensible standards for detecting the line between education and indoctrination the Committee can perform a service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solid Foundations | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...library will perform the functions of a House library and is not intended to be a commuters' substitute for Lamont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Library Planned For Dudley Commuters | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

Watching Jenkins perform at the committee table in Washington, the U.S. television audience will not see him at his best. His most spectacular performances are his final arguments to juries. He pulls his big (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), rawboned frame out of his chair, opens his coat, loosens his tie, unbuttons his shirt collar, strides up and down before the jury box. At times he laughs, then he sneers, and then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terror of Tellico Plains | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...York University's center also concentrates on racial and community problems, e.g., the plight of Manhattan's Puerto Ricans, the reasons for public-school dropouts, the services a church might perform in a changing neighborhood

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happily Ever After? | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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