Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists before him, was on his way to banishment in Asia's outer reaches. Kicked out of the Soviet Communist Party Presidium and Central Committee, demoted from the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from Moscow. The area is part of the Karaganda administration of Gulag, the vast slave-labor system that Malenkov helped found. In Ust Kamenogorsk, Malenkov will be constantly watched. If his exile follows...
...James A. Howenstine, two self-made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell $200,000 worth of stock in order to make the new paper a community project. Its name: the Lima Citizen. Of more than 1,000 Limaites who bought up the shares, only some 150 invested more than $125 each. "I bought stock as a civic responsibility," said one businessman...
...Soon after Hoiles took over, the evening News reversed its longtime policy, began to squawk "socialism" at many programs that had widespread support among business and professional leaders. In quick succession the paper 1) helped defeat a proposal to fluoridate the city water, 2) successfully opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with...
...November election, 92% of Lima's registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...
...annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort of all-round cultural and sport center; he has already sunk $800,000 of his own money into the project...