Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. Three weeks of bitter debate, marked by some of the wildest scenes ever witnessed in the staid Canadian Parliament, ended with the passage of the government's natural-gas pipeline bill (TIME, May 21) just six hours before the deadline for starting work on the project this year...
...this respect the National Scholarship Service and fund for Negro Students has conducted a Southern project for the past two years. The objective was to encourage more of the best Negro students from Southern high schools to apply for admission to good interracial colleges in the North. During the two years 78 Negro high schools in the 45 largest southern cities were visited. 3,178 students, all in the top ten percent of their senior classes, then took a modified college entrance examination. Of these, 1,732 passed. And 578 applied for admission to an interracial college, with 523 being...
...Southern Project...
Moreover, as old (76) John L. pointed out last week, pensions and medical care for the U.M.W.'s 400,000 miners and their families in the area have left "men on both sides of the industry . . . free to apply themselves to the major project of making this industry successful." The U.S. today produces more coal at lower cost than any other nation in the world. With production running 15% ahead of 1955 and heavy export orders stacked up, the once-sick industry is fast improving its health...
...backbone of the business is still construction. Last week Kaiser had a $638,500,000 backlog of construction and engineering jobs, biggest in its history. In addition, Kaiser is the managing firm (with 25% interest) in the joint construction group that is building Australia's Snowy Mountains Project, a $56 million complex of dams, river diversions, hydroelectric plants and tunnels...