Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual World Science Fiction Convention this September, for instance, a sizeable portion of time at the three-day meeting was given over to the Glenn L. Martin Company for a discussion of Project Vanguard, next year's launching of an Earth Satellite. No one mentioned--or watched--Captain Video...
...because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power project in the Hell's Canyon area, a recent power shortage has allowed Morse to sing his "Government can do it better" chant with some effectiveness. Doug McKay's campaign is well-heeled. He has the almost unanimous editorial backing of Oregon's influential newspapers. And all through...
Lonely Hearts. The tabloid Napoleon, who sometimes propped his hand in his vest, waged the war for circulation (goal: 1,000,000) with stunts and sensations. The Graphic gave toys to the poor in Central Park, filled Madison Square Garden with a "Lonely Hearts Ball." The lonely hearts project was dropped within a year, when a woman deposited a baby on Gauvreau's desk and asked what he proposed to do about it. It had happened after the ball, she said...
Lobbying is a practice of NSA, and its policies in this area, as in all other areas, are determined by the annual national congress. This year the congress authorized the establishment of a "NSA Legislative Subcommission" in Washington whose major project for the year will be to add teaching to the list of critical occupations which allow deferment from the draft...
...still cannot help feeling that there is something wrong with this play, and that, despite the grandeur of its conception, it never quite succeeds. At the end of the four hours, none of the pity and horror that a tragedy can project, actually develops, and I felt only a profound exhaustion. The people on the stage simply did not appear to matter very much at any time during the evening, even though the four members of the O'Neill family, thinly disguised under the name of Tyrone, are a fairly interesting lot. The head of the family, an aging...