Word: projected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organizers of the "Manhattan Project" demonstration demanded that NYSE officials "delist" 61 corporations involved in the nuclear power industry. The protest was also scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash...
...U.S.S.R. faster (at 740 m.p.h., vs. 450 for the B-52) and more safely at low altitudes. The FB-111 would be more difficult for the Soviets to detect, hi part because it shows up as a smaller radar image than the B-52. What might prevent Allen's project from taking off is its price tag: $6 billion...
Jones does not win every argument, of course. Indeed, he still bears the scars of the fight over the B-l supersonic bomber. Carter canceled that project in June 1977, when ex-Bomber Pilot Jones was Air Force Chief of Staff and the plane's leading advocate. Carter's surprise decision shook the Air Force. Its generals immediately began talking of mounting a campaign in Congress to save the bomber and they looked to Jones to lead the attack. Jones concluded instead that such a campaign would have almost no chance of succeeding. "That was an agonizing decision...
...purpose is to prevent the exchange from operating," Cindy Leerer, organizer of the "Manhattan Project," told a crowd of 2000 in front of the World Trade Center...
...Monday the alliance and a coalition of other anti-nuke groups plan to block the opening of the New York Stock Exchange 50 years after the Crash. The "Manhattan Project" demonstrators plan to cordon off the doors of the exchange to prevent brokers from entering the building and trading the stocks of the 66 corporations active in nuclear energy...