Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanker, but added that it was much more interested in getting a supersonic nuclear jet that would provide a new operational weapons system than it was in winning a round in psychological warfare. In the end the meeting agreed only that 1) the atomic-plane project needed more study, and that 2) the group would get together again to consider the results of that study soonest-"but not next week...
...Panel II, one of seven panels set up in the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc. of New York. Co-signers of the Defense Report: Investment Banker Frank Altschul, vice president, Council on Foreign Relations; General (ret.) Frederick L. Anderson, commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary...
Procter & Gamble's organization existed to give its president the facts-and McElroy used them to make his top-level decisions. When a scientist wrote P. & G. suggesting that fluorine in toothpaste might prevent tooth decay, the company hired the scientist, launched an intensive research project which came up with the information that enabled McElroy to give the go-ahead on Crest...
...bigwig, poker-playing group). In 1950 McElroy's public spirit took him to a luncheon for the president of Columbia University, who needed $25,000 to help finance Columbia's American Assembly, a series of conferences on public issues. After Columbia's president explained the project, McElroy asked him to "wait around for a few moments while I nail this thing together." On the spot he raised the $25,000, and Columbia's Dwight D Eisenhower was most impressed...
SYRIA. The Soviet aid agreement signed by the Syrians with such fanfare last October ostensibly commits the U.S.S.R. to supply in credits and technical aid about one-third the estimated $600 million cost of 19 specific development projects (among them: oil exploration, port expansion, construction of a dam across the Euphrates). But the agreement also specifies that a separate accord must be negotiated on each project before actual work is begun. The result is that Russia is not legally bound to spend a single ruble on Syrian development. And, in fact, the agreement has not yet netted Syria a single...