Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still other advantages are gained. By devouring, the biology specimens, hundreds of square feet of floor space, formerly used to store the preserved animals, will be freed for some worthy project such as a housing development. The University meat supply would become constant and nutritive, and several overworked deans, now in charge of meat procurement, could return to their former jobs as floorwalkers in Widener...
...politicians and conservative fellow prelates with disapproval and alarm. But today, tall, balding Bishop Herrera, 62, who runs a new social school for priests, can feel that the tide, with a little pushing from Rome, may be turning at last. This month the Pope gave permission for a project to establish similar social schools all over Spain...
Christie has already spent $1,500,000 on his project, $300,000 of it building a road from Monrovia to the mountain 45 miles away. He expects to spend a total of $8,000,000 building a railroad to the mine and getting the mine in operation. Just how much ore is in the mountain has not been determined. But Christie and Republic estimate it upwards of 30 million tons, enough to make the deal highly profitable for both of them, as well as for Liberia...
...House Committees are successful in their current "adoption" drives, there will be sevenless displaced persons of college age in European camps by next September. The request for funds to cover the DPs' room, board, and expenses isn't just another charity solicitation. It is a unique project: those who contribute will be bringing fellow-students to Harvard and fellow-human beings to America--from a part of the world where the opportunities for study and decent living have been sparse, to put it mildly...
This leaves about $500 per House which must be collected by May 1 to meet a deadline on legal assurance forms. If the money isn't raised by this time, the whole project will collapse...