Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn this bit of information, and much more, Suchmann has had just about a month. It was at the beginning of May that Henry Salomon, Jr. '39, head of NBC's "Project...
Therefore the solution which the University has adopted, and which President Pusey strongly champions, is construction, in Cambridge, of "Houses," (apartments) for at least 400 families. The Cost for such a project the University estimates at seven million dollars...
With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...
...dynamite blast that geysered water of the Detroit River 150 ft. in the air signaled a new era in Great Lakes shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest...
Private contractors, working under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will carve out a standard 27-ft. waterway in the 130 miles of channels linking the western Great Lakes. This week the Army will open bids for the second stage of the project, the deepening of a channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost...