Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they came to the final vote on foreign aid, it was not too surprising. Early in the session the Administration had hinted broadly at a bold new program for long-range economic aid, had cited Egypt's Aswan Dam as a prime example of a worthy long-range project; now the Aswan Dam program had blown sky-high in the latest Middle East explosion. Never did the Administration present a coherent world economic policy. In May NATO's retiring commander General Alfred Maxmilian Gruenther testified grimly on the urgent need for arming the U.S.'s NATO allies...
Last week the House: ¶ Killed (203-191) a Senate-approved, Democratic-sponsored bill to authorize federal construction of nuclear reactors in a new $400 million public-power project, thereby heeding the Administration's pri mary reliance upon private enterprise in this field...
...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program of political and economic reform. As their pilot project, which they christened Operation Esperance (Operation Hope), authorities expropriated from a French landholding company a 600-acre farm near the Kabylia town of Saint Lucien and announced that 16 Moslem fellahin would be given ownership of the land they had worked as sharecroppers. The French also proclaimed free local elections...
Started in 1951 during the Korean war, the job of building the base involved the greatest earth-moving project since the Panama Canal: 85 feet of solid earth and rock were hacked from the top of Mount Maritan, and millions of tons of coral rock were dredged from the nearby China...