Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishment of a new undergraduate library to be erected on the present site of the Dana-Palmer House inside the Yard. The Palmer House, long a landmark in Harvard architecture, will be moved across Quincy Street into the area formerly occupied by Hocking House. Funds for the relocation project came in the form of an anonymous gift...
...Japan last week the Eighth Army had abuilding the largest project yet: 55 acres at Chofu, 15 miles from Tokyo on the Tawa River; 25 acres at Otsu, six miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...charge of the Japanese farms is a tall, tanned, 38-year-old Kentucky farmer, Lieut. Colonel Ewing Elliott, head of the Army's hydroponic projects and now attached to the Eighth Army. He will use about 1,000 Japanese workers-including agricultural students-when the project this fall begins to yield its tomatoes (most successful hydroponic crop), lettuce, radishes, onions, cucumbers, peppers. Colonel Elliott thinks that the farms will not only help keep the occupation troops healthy, but may teach the Japs a valuable lesson. Only 14% of their crowded, rocky island is arable land...
...atomic bombs spread their radioactive end-products? This question has never been answered conclusively. Except for a few negative statements to soothe the nervous public, the Manhattan Project has kept its observations secret. But last fortnight some scattered facts came...
Some scientists believe, that active particles from a single bomb are carried all over the earth. After the fourth bomb explodes at Bikini lagoon this summer, the Manhattan Project may have the answer. It plans to measure atmospheric radioactivity around the world...