Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his two previous books, "The OxBow Incident" and "The city of Trembling Leaves," Walter Van Tilburg Clark began to rejuvenate the American west as a setting for upper-middle brow literature. In "The Track of the Cat," a simple adventure story with deep psychological undertones, he continues this project...
...only fair way to evaluate the success of a project like the Purchase Card is in terms of the aims and the plans of the group behind it. The primary job of the NSA Purchase Card committee at Harvard this year was, in conjunction with the other NSA colleges in the Boston Area, to put into operation a working Purchase Card System. Harvard's committee was selected to head this operation. If we take a look at the results of the first few months of the PCS in Boston we can see that a successful, working system has been...
Medal for Merit. Sir William agreed to take on the Jamaica cement project. With the same quiet dexterity that won him a wartime U.S. Medal for Merit, he quickly organized the Caribbean Cement Co. Ltd., with himself as chairman (Ed Stettinius joined in as a director). He got a 19-year monopoly on Jamaican cement, and a scale of guaranteed prices (30% below the delivered cost of British cement, but still enough to make a tidy $221,650 annual profit...
Around January 1, 1950, the largest section of the housing project will open to occupants. This portion of the apartment building program is made up of a three-storey building built on three sides of a garden court and a similar structure adjacent to it on Raymond Street...
...half months ago, the National Student Association's Purchase Card System began operations at Harvard. There was a little preliminary publicity, and cards were on sale for a few days in the dining halls. Ever since, the project has been quietly dying on its feet...