Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting, the first one of its kind, will initiate a project "for studying the sources of international tension in so far as they arise out of social life and personality disorders...
Ottawa reasons that if either Canada or the U.S. goes to war, the other will inevitably be an active ally. Standardization of arms is obviously desirable. Canada would like to start the project with 1,500 to 2,000 planes, the first half for the R.C.A.F. and the second half for the U.S. With the dollars obtained from selling the planes to the U.S., Canada could pay for purchases of U.S.-produced armaments...
...Government will spend nearly $700 million on atomic energy this year, and this vast project will be largely supervised by a handful of U.S. corporations. Yet major corporations, which will spend hundreds of millions on research this year, will not put one red cent of it into atomic energy research (see SCIENCE). Many companies have even refused to take any part in the Government project...
...library is named after Thomas W. Lamont '92, whose gift of $1,500,000 in November, 1945, launched the project. Construction began in June, 1947. Delayed by strikes and record snows, the building was finally completed after 19 months of work...
...teamed up, they pooled cash ($10,000 apiece) and experience so that each could get, in Anderson's words, "a better chance to say his independent say than we had as lone travelers in the pretty desperate profit jungle [around] Times Square." Of the cynics who gave the project six months, Rice demanded: "What the hell does a producer do that...