Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further reports on graduate problems being prepared by the Graduate Council include two by the Education Committee on language requirements and degree requirements in the various departments. The latter project has reached the hearings stage, and an open meeting, similar to the scholarship discussion...
There were no dreamhouses at Airport Homes. It wasn't even a very fancy veterans' housing project-just a row of barrack-like frame buildings thrown up on vacant lots near Chicago's municipal airport. But the apartments were empty. Veterans who lived near by in their in-laws' homes kept tabs: the houses looked as if they were going to stay empty for quite a while...
...time passed, rumors began. People heard that Negro veterans or ex-soldiers from outside Chicago were going to move in. The neighborhood veterans held a meeting, decided on action. One night last week 60 of them advanced on the office of the project's caretaker, lifted the keys off a wall rack, began opening doors...
...Medal. But next day Chicago rang with protests over the first organized outbreak of squatting in the U.S. since the housing crisis began. Cried the chairman of the board of the Public Housing Association: "If their acts are condoned ... a land rush will be on every time a housing project is ready for occupancy." The Chicago Housing Authority held a staff meeting, sent the squatters letters asking them to get out. It was explained that the apartments had been left vacant, not through carelessness, but because the CHA had insisted on repairs before taking possession. Meanwhile other veterans...
Said atomic General Leslie R. Groves: "This will be the fourth in the network of laboratories established by the Manhattan Project. . . . [It] will be transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission as part of the broad peacetime development program...