Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Social Security program, added disability benefits at the age of 50, forced on the Defense Department more money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project in U.S. history, and the dam project to bring vital power and water to the hungry, thirsty Upper Colorado River Basin...
...Report, called "How the Soviet System Works," is published as a book by the Harvard University Press and summarizes the results of studies made by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the United States Air Force. Its authors are Psychologist Raymond A. Bauer, Sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn...
...Uranium Committees. The super-secret U.S. atom bomb project was born in the fall of 1939, when President Roosevelt created the Advisory Committee on Uranium to decide whether an atomic bomb was a practical possibility. The Russians had the same idea independently, and in April 1940 the Soviet Academy of Sciences set up a comparable Committee for the Problem of Uranium...
MORE POWER PARTNERSHIP is in store for Northwest. Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...
...approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...