Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approved, in the Senate and the House, and sent to the White House, a conference-tooled bill to launch the $760 million Upper Colorado River development project...
Stepping into one of the hottest spots in Washington is Eger (pronounced Eager) Vaughan Murphree, 57, an industrial research expert with little specific knowledge of missiles but an impressive record for getting results in engineering projects. No stranger to atomic weapons, Murphree was a World War II member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World...
Superficially, Hoffa's answer seemed no more than the truth. That afternoon, at a meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT for the Priest Rapids Dam in Washington state will get under way soon. Major legal obstacle to the big dam, a suit challenging disposition of power sale contracts, has been withdrawn, and the Grant County Public Utility District will soon award the construction contract. Apparent low bidder: Merritt-Chapman & Scott, for $91.8 million...
...Jersey. To be ready by 1959 at a cost of $119 million, refinery will have an initial capacity of 3,000,000 tons of crude oil annually, will build up to 5,000,000 tons by 1961, some 50% of West Germany's total current capacity. Project also involves six 36,000-ton tankers, plus a 150-to 200-mile pipeline from North Sea ports to Cologne...