Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model of one of the intercontinental ballistic missiles which are his special concern. Less and less under wraps, in recent weeks, is slim Ben Schriever himself, and the Pacific Coast has gradually become aware that he runs something called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made a progress report to a hard-boiled symposium of astronautics scientists in San Diego (see SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped...
...parents a year, guides them in choosing a college best suited to their needs, arranges for the necessary tests, provides them with money to supplement whatever scholarships they win. Since 1948 Nessfeness has placed 4,000 boys and girls in 300 interracial colleges. In only two years its Southern Project, which concentrates on the Deep South, has placed 520. At the same time, the service has begun sending promising students to Eastern prep schools. The students have done astonishingly well: of the 520 Southern Project students, only four had dropped out for academic reasons by last June. Some Nessfeness case...
...There it is," said Project Manager John West. "The EBWR is on the line." The EBWR is the Atomic Energy Commission's Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and Congressman Carl T. Durham of North Carolina, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, had just thrown a switch that put the reactor into operation...
PRIVATE POWER won long dispute over whether bulk of U.S. power from St. Lawrence Seaway project should go to private industry or to public systems. New York's Governor Harriman okayed sale to Reynolds Metals Co. of more than 25% of state's St. Lawrence power, on top of same amount already promised to Alcoa. Reynolds will build $88 million aluminum reduction plant on St. Lawrence near Massena, N.Y., and General Motors will put up aluminum casting foundry there, spur lagging industrialization in the upstate area...
...only fighter which everyone in the business agrees will not be cut back: production of the F-102 and its faster, more advanced version, called the F-106, will probably total 350. In addition, Convair is a big contractor in the Air Force's nuclear bomber project and the Atlas intercontinental missile. Furthermore, Convair also has its B58 Hustler, first big supersonic U.S. bomber, in the air as a possible interim weapon until missiles take over long-range bombardment duties. So far, Convair has orders for a test batch of 17 Hustlers, and has Air Force promises of solid...