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Word: projects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National Monument) and Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ready for Harness | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...plans, which will be completed in two or three months, will keynote a drive for funds to finance the project. Although sailing is sponsored by the H.A.A., the club must provide the funds and endowment necessary to build and maintain the boathouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Will Hold Drive to Finance Boathouse Plans | 3/10/1956 | See Source »

...Harvard-Delhi Student Project last night named its officers for the coming year. William D. Faust '57 and John Mendelsohn '58 were elected co-chairmen, with Peter N. Stearns '57 and David G. Taylor '57 as secretaries, and Richard Rohrberg '58 as treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delhi Officers Chosen | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

Rents will rise ten per cent in the Graduate Center Dormitories next fall because of a soundproofing project and general increased maintenance costs, Wesley E. Bevins, Jr., Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Dorms Increase Rent To Carry Out Soundproofing Plan | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...added that he knew the sound-proofing was faulty when the buildings were designed. "I wrote the authorities for the right to plaster the walls, but the project was on a tight budget and I could not get permission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Dorms Increase Rent To Carry Out Soundproofing Plan | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

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