Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invest in high-school students is Robert Lee Silber, 29-year-old head of the science department at Central. Silber has his own special brand of mild-mannered determination, e.g., to work his way through Evansville College, he scrubbed floors in a slaughterhouse. He hit on his present project in the summer of 1956, when he did not have time to finish some research work on amino acids at NIH before school reopened. Encouraged by NIH biochemist Filadelfo Irreverre, Silber asked NIH for a grant to carry on the work with his students back at Central. The grant came through...
...salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough for bus fare and supper money, but not enough to make the project a job"), often has to shoo them out of the lab at night...
...word by word such classics as H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage and A Dictionary of American English, edited by Sir William Craigie (see MILESTONES) and James Hulbert. In all, Bergen piled up 108 looseleaf notebooks in his children's playroom. As the project grew, he began to have nightmares about a fire destroying his files. "If the house caught fire while I was out," he chuckles, "my wife was instructed to forget the kids and start throwing the books out the window." Despite all his research, Evans willingly admits that the final defense...
...interest rates has repeatedly failed to pass, and President Eisenhower vetoed a bill to grant real-estate investment trusts the same exemptions from corporation taxes now granted securities investment trusts. Some cities have taken matters into their own hands; New York City is working on twelve middle-income projects (about $21 a room) with rents lower than private buildings because of lower financing costs, partial tax exemptions and nonprofit operation. It also grants private builders tax exemptions and loans of up to 90% of a project's cost...
...cattlemen that Chicago, not Omaha, was cow butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint venture, hopes to market in a year in areas that have no natural...