Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daniels Pile. Admittedly, the Manhattan District had been over-optimistic in its prediction. When it plunged into the power project two years ago, no one had made more than a start on any of the major technical problems. Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved...
...sponsor men who were. In Paris he put on a giant show of Russian art, a series of concerts of Russian music, and the first Parisian performance of Musorgsky's great opera Boris Godunov, with Chaliapin in the title role. Then he was ready for his biggest project: Russian ballet...
Sometimes British Cinemaster J. Arthur Rank must feel that nobody in the world appreciates a really enterprising man. He might have expected cheers for his latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...
...prove it, he has been working nine years on the most ambitious project of his life. By last week, 14 of the 36 life-size nudes, posturing and prancing on their plaster pedestals, were ready to be crated up for the foundry to be cast into bronze. A rich private cemetery in Falls Church, Va. had ordered the figures for a fountain, and Carl Milles had decided to model them on friends he had known long ago. The friends were all dead, but not to Milles. He had shown them in some pleasant afterworld living happily on forever...
...line. Tying up such records will make it impossible to continue operating." He laid off 1,100 workers, closed down the plant until the investigation was over. For once Tucker permitted himself a note of pessimism. If the plant remained closed for more than 60 days, he said, the "project . . . might collapse...