Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manlius School, a boys' college-preparatory school near Syracuse, N.Y., four years ago started an annual mathematics tournament, open to high-school students in upstate New York. Thought behind this project is to extol mental prowess in the same spirit that usually prevails on the athletic fields. Students from ninth to twelfth grades are eligible to compete. This year 801 high-school students, representing 73 high schools, took part in the tournament. High-school teachers, who laud the experiment, say that many of their students "aim for" the tournament throughout the entire year, whetting their interest in the subject...
...Scanner represented a major breakthrough for Springdale and Eastman Kodak engineers who labored jointly on the project for ten years. An electronic "computer," it automatically transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four-color printing. Other Springdale firsts include an aluminum-backed letterpress plate, an internal lockup plate cylinder, a high-speed bindery, and the "balanced light"illuminator...
...most immediate impact on the people of the U.S. (see BUSINESS) was enactment of the historic $33.5 billion federal-state road-building program, signed by the President before leaving Walter Reed Hospital. Starting this week, the U.S. motorist will begin to pay for the unprecedented 41,000-mile project with a tax of one cent more for every gallon of gas, plus a tax on tires that will run around 70? a tire for passenger cars...
...that Duplessis was selling out the province's resources to U.S. investors. Ironically, this was the same accusation that opponents have been hurling at the Liberal government in Ottawa. But on the Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general prosperity in recent years-and gave them one more convincing reason to re-elect Maurice Duplessis...
Plastics & Ramjets. Gambling on the new Crusader, Detweiler threw most of his 2,000-man engineering force into the project. Though the first designs were approved by the Navy in May 1953, while C. V. was still under United's wing, the company had to build the plane on its own, used every trick to make sure the Crusader lived up to specifications, developed some of its own, e.g., transparent plastic fuel tanks and pipes to test the fuel flow in every conceivable position in advance. Within 22 months from the time C. V. won the design competition...