Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the contract. The Democrats' best ammunition came late in the debate when Senate investigators learned that one Adolphe H. Wenzell had acted as consultant to the Budget Bureau on the Dixon-Yates contract while at the same time advising the First Boston Corp. on financing for the project...
...Dixon-Yates contract when the city of Memphis decided that it would build its own municipal plant. Whereupon Dixon-Yates (actually a combine of the Southern Co. and Middle South Utilities, Inc.) went to court demanding from the Government $3,534,778.45 it had already expended on the project. Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department braked to a halt, wheeled about, asked the Court of Claims to dismiss the Dixon-Yates suit because-in the Department's words-the contract was from the start "unlawful, null and void, and contrary to public policy...
Last week brought further news of the kidnaped scientist. A party of Western scientists, recently returned from a scientific conference in Moscow, reported that Kapitsa, far from helping the Soviet H-bomb project, had run afoul of Dictator Stalin for refusing on moral grounds to devote himself to the development of thermonuclear weapons. For the last seven years of the Stalin regime, he had, in fact, been kept under house arrest. One of the first acts of the post-Stalin government had been to release the hostage scientist, give him a couple of chauffeur-driven cars and restore...
...External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who was appointed two months ago, along with Norway's Halvard Lange and Italy's Gaetano Martino, to make a study of nonmilitary cooperation among members of the NATO alliance, will spend much of his time on that project in coming months. Pearson told a press conference that a long questionnaire had been sent to the 15 NATO capitals inviting suggestions on how the alliance could expand its economic, political and other non-military functions. The Pearson-Lange-Martino committee-"The Three Wise Men,"-will collate the replies and prepare a report...
...obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...