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Word: projects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were being repainted according to a master color scheme; vacant buildings were torn down to make way for new; a combination town hall-library-fire station was built. Involved in the project at one time or another: almost 70% of Snoqualmie's residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: A Cure for Lumbago | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...from the main current of Washington life, and its community life was stagnating. The Bureau's solution: broad-based citizen participation in cultural and sociological programs. Today Port Angeles (pop. 11,850) not only feels itself a part of Washington but of the world. One prime civic project: some 200 of its citizens regularly exchange correspondence, art and books with those of Rosenheim. Germany, and in the last year, high schools in the two communities have exchanged students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: A Cure for Lumbago | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...Adjectives Wanted. A month after the Ford Foundation launched the project with $106,000 a year to "fill a vacuum" in the South (TIME, June 14, 1954), circulation of the News, then distributed free, leaped from 10,000 to 30,000. It went to top Southern state and city officials, hundreds of school boards, educators, editors-and ordinary parents who found plenty of opinion on the issue in their own newspapers but too little information. Last year, when the service began charging $2 a year, subscriptions began at 3,000 and quickly rose to 12,000 in 48 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tightrope | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...Project Sherwood, the secret U.S. program to achieve controlled thermonuclear (atomic fusion) power, came ever so slightly into the open last week. After attending a secret conference of 350 Sherwood men at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Dr. Edward Teller, leading authority on thermonuclear processes, delivered a complicated paper before an unclassified meeting of the American Nuclear Society at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Bottle | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Teller's speech did not give the present status of U.S. thermonuclear research, but it did give a great deal of background, new to most outsiders, about the path (or one of the paths) that Project Sherwood is following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Bottle | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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