Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regained many of the lost markets. We helped the lowest-income people in agriculture. We brought social security for the first time to operators of family farms. We refunded to farmers the $60 million-a-year federal tax on farm gasoline. We started the great St. Lawrence Seaway project-the 30-year dream of Midwestern farm families . . . And we turned prices back up-without...
...thought that the first week's warm reception was a good indication of "what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America House, Ltd., devoted to selling U.S. craft products...
...were equipped to deal with these maladies. Then three years after the Civil War had ended, a young veteran of Gettysburg returned to Boston from a postwar refresher tour of Europe's medical centers with a bold idea. To four skeptical colleagues, Dr. Francis Henry Brown explained his project: to found a hospital devoted to children...
Modern high-altitude rockets are not always complex monsters like their ancestral V2. They are steadily growing smaller, simpler and cheaper. This week Republic Aviation Corp. told about a non-military rocket that it is manufacturing for a Defense Department project administered by the University of Maryland. Called the Terrapin (after the university's mascot), it is a two-stage, solid-propellant rocket that climbs 80 miles...
...this respect the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students has conducted a Southern project for the past two years. The objective was to encourage more of the best Negro students from Southern high schools to apply for admission to good interracial colleges in the North. During the two years 78 Negro high schools in the 45 largest southern cities were visited. 3,178 students, all in the top ten percent of their senior classes, then took a modified college entrance examination. Of these, 1,732 passed. And 578 applied for admission to an interracial college, with 523 being...