Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dodgers have sold Ebbets Field to Manhattan Real-Estateman Marvin Kratter, associated with Financier Hanns Ditisheim who took over Chicago's Butler Bros, retail-store chain eight months ago (TIME, March 5). Kratter will lease the field to team until 1961, when he starts work on housing project...
...with railroad flares and the Princeton band, kicked off the weekend. It was followed by the Tiger-Prince Dance, featuring the orchestra of Benny Goodman. Despite the steep admission charge of $10, over 1000 couples were expected to attend, mainly because there were few other things to do. The project, sponsored by the college paper and humor magazine, needed 1000 couples to break even...
...Uruguay a large part of the $25.5 million World Bank loan was made in West German marks, and the rest in Swedish kronor, Swiss francs, and other currencies to allow the country's nationalized electric-power system to buy equipment from European bidders. The specific Uruguayan project: a hydroelectric power plant at Rincón de Biagorria on the Rio Negro complete with transmission and distribution facilities. The new plant will increase Uruguay's power production...
...race for two-year-olds at championship distance was a project launched by Garden State's President Eugene Mori in 1953. It would appeal to both horse breeders and horseplayers, he reasoned, as a way of separating the sprinters from the stayers. It would also give a line on the potential ability of the following season's three-year-olds. Liberally backed by owners (who were required to shell out more than $2,000 apiece in nominating, eligibility, entry and starting fees) and underwritten for $100,000 by the Garden State Racing Association, the race overnight became...
...products other than "toys" came out of the meetings. Often, Campbell would come to town, the "Society" would meet, and the following month Astounding Science Fiction would contain a story about robot brains and thinking machines. Once, Ted Kalin, who now works for Project "Lincoln," and Bill Burkhardt, regular "members" at large, actually built a large logic computer which could tackle intricate logical problems with great ease. Nothing much came of the thing, except that several scientists wore satisfied grins for a few months...