Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian technicians, the Red Chinese have drawn up an ambitious plan to straddle the Yellow and its tributaries with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
...influence firmly established in the U.S. and Latin America (where it tries to operate as a kind of miniature United Nations), Storey is turning his attention to the center's responsibilities in other parts of the world. He feels strongly that the U.S. has failed properly to project the American judicial and constitutional idea. Says he: "Our Government has spent billions in restoring shattered economies and social activities in foreign countries. But it has totally neglected the effort to return the rule of law to those countries. Our greatest objective, I think, is not to sell our system...
...into the Senate battle against the winner of next week's four-way Democratic primary, probably the incumbent Senator, Alan Bible. Young's bright prospects have been dimmed because Nevada's multitude of miners, ranchers and sportsmen have been reminded that Young favored a U.S. Navy project to close off 2,245,000 acres of good hunting and fishing land for gunnery ranges...
...getting drinking water from the frozen sea. The Bolshevik Revolution was raging when he heard the lecture, and Zarchin soon got institute support for his experiments to help the Red army. His apparatus, used in the salt marshes of Tashkent, was too expensive, but Zarchin remained certain that the project was practical. He kept it in mind when he was sentenced to five years in the Urals for slyly registering a magnesium-extracting process under the letters "LZLE" first letters of the Hebrew Phrase meaning, "For Zions sake I will not keep silent" (Isaiah...
...Great Chance. Last week, still believing in his plan and still unable to keep silent Zarchin, 59, citizen of Israel, happily checked the calculations of another test project that may prove his point. The Israeli government had given him $270,000 to build a pilot plant in the Negev the vast, parched area in southern Israel. The plant will use water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea. "We are too poor a country to reject dreams," said one official. Only men who do nothing are always right...